Figure 1: Positions of the spacecraft and planets in the ecliptic plane on 23 July 2012.
From: Observations of an extreme storm in interplanetary space caused by successive coronal mass ejections
The dashed circle indicates the orbit of the Earth, and the dotted lines show the spiral interplanetary magnetic fields. The trajectory of the merged CMEs as measured using SOHO and STEREO B coronagraph observations is marked by crosses.
