The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) onboard Hinode as well as the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) AIA instrument provide an opportunity to observe solar jetting activity above the solar poles. A 2D correlation program operated at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) allows the temporal evolution of coronal structures from successive coronagraph images to be determined, and their speeds measured. The LASCO C2 images allow measurement of the coronal response to some of the jets observed near the solar surface, and verify their outward motion and speeds. Using the SMEI (Solar Mass Ejection Imager) image data set, we are able to study these same solar jet responses at large distances from the Sun to determine the extent to which the 3D jet response maintains its identity into the inner heliosphere.
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