CME blast seen by LASCO C2 -- An image sequence over 90 minutes of a large coronal mass ejection 10 April 2001 associated with an X2.3 flare. A CME blasts a billion tons ofparticles traveling millions of kilometers an hour into space. This CMEimpacted Earth about 36 hours later and caused a severe geomagnetic storm. 

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