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NASA Sun Earth
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CME blast and subsequent impact at Earth -- This illustration shows a CME blasting off the Sun’s surface in the direction of Ea CME blast and subsequent impact at Earth -- This illustration shows a CME blasting off the Sun’s surface in the direction of Earth. This left portion is composed of an EIT 304 image superimposed on a LASCO C2 coronagraph. Two to four days later, the CME cloud is shown striking and beginning to be mostly deflected around the Earth’s magnetosphere.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineNASA Sun Earth. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002115.
