The image is obtained from a three-dimensional tomographic reconstruction of the plasma from perspective views of it available from outward motion of the plasma and solar rotation. The intensity level observed by the photometers is a least-squares fit to a hydrodynamic model over the time period observed. Because of this limitation, only the corotating component of the heliospheric plasma density and velocity can be reconstructed from the data. Clearly seen is the three-dimensional Archimedean spiral structure of the dense heliospheric components of the solar wind during this solar minimum period when the heliospheric current sheet was nearly parallel to the equator. The Sun's bright disk is artifically eclipsed by the instrument so that faint details in the outer corona can be detected.
CMEs leave the corona from the right and left sectors.
None of these are directed towards earth.