29 March 2024 - Mission Day: 10346 - DOY: 089
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Serial CMEs (May 28, 2010)


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The Sun unleashed a series of four coronal mass ejections CMEs just in two-days (May 22-24, 2010) as the STEREO Ahead spacecraft watched the action. While the Sun has not been very active over the last two years, it can still pack some punches when it decides to. In the coronagraph images, the Sun, blocked out by an occulting disk (seen as red), is represented by a white disk to show its relative size. CMEs are large solar storms that expel a billion tons of matter at a million miles per hour or more.

 

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