Waspie_Dwarf Posted July 3, 2013 #1 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Coronal Mass Ejection Headed Toward Mercury and Venus On July 1, 2013, at 6:09 p.m. EDT, the sun erupted with a coronal mass ejection, or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can affect electronic systems in satellites. Experimental NASA research models based on NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory show that the CME was not Earth-directed and it left the sun at around 570 miles per second.Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Merton Posted July 3, 2013 #2 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Glad to know they are keeping a good eye on our sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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