The Coronal Mass Ejection that took place was, if nothing else, exciting and majestic. Here is how NASA says:
- On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, erupted into space. The ejected mass traveled away from the sun at over 900 miles per second.
- This movie shows the ejection from a variety of viewpoints as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), and the joint ESA/NASA Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
