- First Solar Orbiter movies showing coronal mass ejections (CMEs)
- A pair of CMEs were detected by multiple instruments during February’s close flyby of the Sun
- CMEs are eruptions of particles from the solar atmosphere that blast out into the Solar System and have the potential to trigger space weather at Earth
- Solar Orbiter will begin its main science mission in November this year
- Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA
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Source: ESA Space News