Science & Exploration
Metis views of February 2021 CME
Solar Orbiter’s Metis coronagraph captured these movies of a coronal mass ejection emanating from the Sun on 12 February 2021. The coronagraph blocks out the dazzling light from the solar surface, allowing the fainter outer atmosphere of the Sun, the corona, to be seen. Metis is the first coronagraph that allows CMEs to be seen in the corona in both visible light scattering by free electrons (left) and UV emission from neutral hydrogen atoms (right).
Metis running difference views of February 2021 CME
Solar Orbiter’s first view of the Sun’s corona
Metis observes the Sun’s corona
Turbulence in the Sun’s corona
