THE PROMINENCE OF AUGUST 12 2001

 

On August 12th 2000 at 12h UT began a large eruptive prominence with ejection of matter at a very high speed (about 400 km/s, ie more than 1 million km/h!).

The following animation contains 32 images for a real duration of 30 minutes. The small disk in the upper right represents the size of the Earth.