Fastest CME of Cycle 23

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

The fastest CME of Cycle 23 overtakes another fast CME

On November 4, 2003, the Sun produced its fastest coronal mass ejection (CME) for cycle 23 out of the active region 0486 located near the southwest limb of the Sun. The CME was expelled with a speed of approximately 2700 km/s. At the time of the launch of this CME, there was another ejection in progress from the same region. The previous ejection started about 7 hours earlier with a speed of about 1000 km/s. The fastest CME overtook the previous one within 2 hours and produced a spectacular radio radiation detected by the Wind, Ulysses and Cassini spacecraft. The movie shows the radio emission and the two interacting CMEs as observed by the SOHO spacecraft.

The movie showing a cannibal CME and associated radio emission.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    SOHO/EIT, SOHO/LASCO, Wind/WAVES

  • Animation ID

    2936

  • Video ID

    None

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Tom Bridgman

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Writer

    William Steigerwald

  • Visualization Date

    2004/05/13

  • Scientist

    Natchimuthuk Gopalswamy (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    Sun, Coronal Mass Ejection, Solar Flare, CME

  • DLESE Subject

    Space science

  • Data Date

    2003-11-04T11:48:11 2003-11-04T23:36:11

  • Animation Type

    Regular