A Relatively Small Puff of Solar Material (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

A Relatively Small Puff of Solar Material

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A relatively small puff of solar material can be seen escaping the sun on the upper left of this movie from ESA and NASA's SOHO on Dec. 19, 2006. This slow ejection was nevertheless powerful enough to cause Venus to lose dramatic amounts of oxygen from its atmosphere four days later.

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