Composite mosaic of solar corona

This composite mosaic image of the solar corona was made out of hundreds of individual Proba-2 SWAP images gathered in off-pointing mode shortly in advance of the 11 July 2010 solar eclipse. The result is an image with an extended field of view: a plasma structure extending up to one solar radius above the solar limb can be distinguised in the north-east direction (top left). Blocking out the solar disc gives an approximation of what people on the ground at Easter Island should have seen.
Produced by Vladimir Slemzin (Lebedev Institute, Russia).