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Goddard TV Video Tape: G2014-048 -- IRIS' First CME

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A coronal mass ejection burst off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014. The giant sheet of solar material erupting was the first CME seen by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS. The field of view seen here is about five Earth's wide and about seven and a half Earth's tall. Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel . For complete transcript, click here . A First for NASA's IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material