Solar Energetic Particles and CMEs

  • Released Thursday, September 20, 2007
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This animation shows a CME erupting off of the Sun and the energetic particles racing ahead of the CME and how they react with the Earth's magnetic field and Mars' magnetic field.

Solar Energetic particles

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

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