Another Earth-Directed CME

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Another Earth-Directed CME

On August 21, 2013 at 1:24 am EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space and reach Earth one to three days later. These particles cannot travel through the atmosphere to harm humans on Earth, but they can affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground.

Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 380 miles per second, which is a fairly common speed for CMEs.

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Another Earth-Directed CME - 21st August 2013

This video shows a faint CME cloud expanding out from the left side of the sun as seen by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (looped x3).

Credit: ESA & NASA/SOHO, Goddard Space Flight Center

Source: NASA

[shrooma]

now would be a good time to jump on a plane to Iceland or Norway.....

[brlesq1]

Hmm...my GPS has been acting funny lately...