Wednesday, April 7, 2010

But Will It Break the Internet

A solar storm struck Earth on April 5, triggering auroras and some radio frequency interference.

On 3 April, the SOHO spacecraft spotted a cloud of charged particles called a coronal mass ejection (CME) shooting from the sun at 500 kilometres per second. This velocity suggested the front would reach Earth in roughly three days.

Link and SpaceWeather

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