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.
A solar storm of this magnitude occurring today would cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts, and damage due to extended outages of the electrical grid. Thesolar storm of 2012was of similar magnitude, but it passed Earth’s orbit without striking the planet, missing by nine days.See ...
In the February 2014 edition ofSpace Weather, physicist Pete Riley of Predictive Science Inc. warned that the odds of a serious geomagnetic storm hitting Earth in the next ten years was 12 percent. Riley told NASA, "Initially, I was quite surprised that the odds were so high, but the stat...
The first wave hit the Earth the night of Sept. 11 and caused a moderate "G2" geomagnetic storm, yielding beautiful aurora light shows in Canada, the northern U.S. and Europe. The second, larger stream began hitting the Earth "just before noon EDT" today, according to C. Alex Young,...
Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting EarthSETH BORENSTEIN
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover captured footage of a solar storm hitting the Martian surface, which created streaks on its camera. Mars is vulnerable to solar radiation.
The Sun sporadically produces eruptive events leading to intense fluxes of solar energetic particles (SEPs) that dramatically disrupt the near-Earth radiation environment. Such events have been directly studied for the last decades but little is known ab
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...
A sudden eruption of magnetic energy on or near the surface of the sun, usually associated with sunspots and accompanied by bursts of electromagnetic radiation and particles. Ultraviolet and x-ray radiation from solar flares often induce electromagnetic disturbances in the earth's atmosphere. ...