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Solar Blasts As the worldwide solar community watched the huge sunspot group #30 with bated breath it erupted violently with an impulsive X3 solar flare at 20:005UT on Monday July 15th . CDS observed the whole event during a 15hr flare watch. The top image above shows the flare onset stage and the lower image the later post flare loops. The temperatures observed range from 30,000 degrees in He I up to 7,800,000 degrees in Fe XIX. The whole of the amazing event can be viewed as a movie ,where fast plasma upflows can be seen rapidly rising. As CDS continued to follow the sunspot region a movie of the following days activity shows a number of smaller Flares. ...and they still keep coming: An X1.8 Flare on July 18th is captured in this movie. Duchess of Gloucester visits CDS View the pictures from her visit to RAL on 12th July 2002 From the CDS Operations Management Team in the Space Science & Technology Department at CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Site maintained by John Rainnie. Last revised on Friday (19/Jul/2002) at 11:49.