Solar Orbiter Captures First Coronal Mass Ejection

In its first, the SoloHI instrument onboard the European Space Agency and NASA’s Solar Orbiter recently captured the first sight of coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun.

• Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) instrument watches the solar wind, dust and cosmic rays that fill the space between the Sun and the planets.
• Solar Orbiter’s remote sensing will enter full science mode by November 2021. SoloHI used one of its four detectors at less than 15% of its normal cadence to reduce the amount of data acquired.
• Two more imagers on Solar Orbiter - ESA’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager and Metis - also captured views ....