An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth produced stunning displays of color in the skies across the Northern Hemisphere, with no immediate reports of disruptions to power and communications.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said a potent blast of magnetic plasma shot out of the sun on Sunday, traveling faster than usual, hitting Earth with the biggest solar storm since March, maybe since September 2005. NOAA space weather physicist Doug Biesecker said there a...
WASHINGTON -- An extreme solar storm is blasting its way to Earth and could mess up some power grids, satellites and radio transmissions, scientists say. It's been several years since Earth has had a solar storm of this size coming from sunspots smack in the middle of the sun, said Tom...
Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting EarthSETH BORENSTEIN
(solar/heliospheric or geomagnetic) reduce cosmogenic nuclide production by GCRs on Earth and vice versa. When hitting the Earth, strong SEPs may cause an additional, short-term increase in cosmogenic nuclide production. Natural archives, such as dendrochronologically dated tree-rings (14C) or ...
A solar storm of this magnitude was actually on Curry’s scientific wish list: “For humans and assets on the Martian surface, we don’t have a solid handle on what the effect is from radiation during solar activity,” she said in a NASAstatementin April. “I’d ...
The specks in this scene were caused by charged particles from a solar storm hitting a camera aboard NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. Curiosity uses its navigation cameras to try and capture images of dust devils and wind gusts, like the one seen here.NASA/JPL-Caltech ...
Earth's magnetosphere. Artist's rendition. There's certainly reason for concern. On September 1, 1859, the most powerful geomagnetic storm of modern times hit the Earth. Aurorae, normally visible only at high latitudes, reached the Caribbean. The glow over the Rocky Mountains was so b...
An undated artist's rendering depicts a solar storm hitting Mars and stripping ions from the planet's upper atmosphere in this NASA handout released Thursday. Scientists have documented a solar storm blasting away Mars' atmosphere, an important clue in a long-standing mystery of how a planet ...
It was later upgraded to an "extreme" geomagnetic storm — the first since the "Halloween Storms" of October 2003 that caused blackouts in Sweden and damaged power infrastructure in South Africa. Friday's storm was listed a...