Comet Encke collides with a CME
NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) satellite captured the first images ever of a collision between a coronal mass ejection and a comet.
Comet Encke visualization from STEREO with a Black/Grey background.
Comet Encke visualization from STEREO with a Black/Blue background.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
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Animator
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
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Scientist
- Angelos Vourlidas (NRL)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, October 1, 2007.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
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[STEREO]
ID: 169The STEREO mission consists of two Sun-observing spacecraft that will travel around the Sun on orbits slightly inside and slightly outside Earth's orbit.
This dataset can be found at: https://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov
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