|
|
#1
07-23-2012, 10:17 PM
|
||||
|
||||
Coronal mass ejection pins the needles on "stereo"
GET A LOAD OF THE TELEMETRY BELOW THE STORY
Wowwzers! Our old friend sunspot 1520 that gave us the aurora light show all the way down to Arkansas last week just produced one of the fastest moving coronal mass ejections in some time. A record 2930 km/s or 6.5 million mph! Looking at some model forecast show solar wind speeds exceeding 1400 km/s with proton densities maxed out. This is something that only occurs maybe once every 5-10 years. At this speeds it would reach earth tonight and deliver i would say easily a G4 or a violent G5 geomagnetic storm conditions. Something of this magnitude would cause a lot of disruption. Since this occurred on the opposite side of the sun this would have no impact for us but our space satellite STEREO A would take a direct hit tonight!. Absolutely stunning! The only impacts for us is we have a level 1 solar radiation storm (Minor). ...See More http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/downloads/...im.tim-vel.gif iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov 
|
|
#2
07-23-2012, 10:53 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
When I first looked at those charts, I mistook STEREO A for Mars, and so was thinking, "Now we're going to hear from NASA that Curiosity has suddenly gone offline only days before its scheduled landing." Thankfully not (yet).
|
|
#3
07-27-2012, 09:00 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Interesting, and that GIF is one of those things you could just watch for hours
__________________
...
|
|
#4
08-08-2012, 04:12 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
So what happened to that satellite?
__________________
Know your idols: Who said "Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.". (Solution: "Mahatma" Ghandi) Stop terraforming Earth (wordpress) "Humans are storytellers. These stories then can become our reality. Only when we loose ourselves in the stories they have the power to control us. Our culture got lost in the wrong story, a story of death and defeat, of opression and control, of separation and competition. We need a new story!"
|
|
#5
08-09-2012, 02:06 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
They're still up there; that was what they were designed to monitor, not just a random network that picked it up.
__________________
...
|
 |
|
|
Linear Mode
