coronal mass ejections
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Unintended Experiment Tracks A Solar Eruption To The Outer Reaches Of The Solar System
On 14 October 2014, our Sun let out a great big burp, a coronal mass ejection that swept through the Solar System at an incredibly fortuitous angle. Several spacecraft (and one intrepid Martian rover) detected the solar blast, resulting in an unprecedented experiment that stretched all the way from Venus to outer reaches of the…