Waspie_Dwarf Posted June 16, 2014 #1 Share Posted June 16, 2014 NASA's Messenger Spots Giant Space Weather Effects at Mercury The solar wind of particles streaming off the sun helps drive flows and swirls in space as complicated as any terrestrial weather pattern. Scientists have now spotted at planet Mercury, for the first time, a classic space weather event called a hot flow anomaly, or HFA, which has previously been spotted at Earth, Venus, Saturn and Mars."Planets have a bow shock the same way a supersonic jet does," said Vadim Uritsky at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "These hot flow anomalies are made of very hot solar wind deflected off the bow shock." Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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