When to Use Coronal Mass Ejection 3D Explorer - Best Sessions and Limits
Open the Coronal Mass Ejection 3D Explorer when you need a discrete CME speed scrub and Sun-to-Earth travel clock - without an MHD forecast desk.
A CME arrival-time lesson
An arrival-time lesson starts when you scrub from under 250 km/s toward nearly 3000 km/s and watch the teaching clock move from multi-day arrivals into the 15-18 hour fast Earth-directed window.
Mass and speed figures from NOAA / NASA
Published figures land cleanly here: speed <250 to nearly 3000 km/s (NOAA SWPC), fastest arrivals 15-18 hours, slower/typical several days (~1-3 days common), and mass at billions of tons (~1e16 g class, NASA GSFC).
Sessions this explorer does not fit
Sessions this page does not fit are a single historical storm deep-dive or ambient heliosphere structure. Use the Carrington Event 3D Explorer or the Solar Wind Heliosphere 3D Explorer for those sibling tasks. Walk the controls in the step-by-step guide.
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