17 April 2012 Up in
the sky!
Spaceeweather.com
has an amazing video of a CME taking place yesterday.
SPECTACULAR
EXPLOSION (UPDATED): Magnetic fields on the sun's northeastern limb erupted around 17:45 UT
on April 16th, producing one of the most visually-spectacular explosions in
years. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the blast at extreme
ultraviolet wavelengths
The explosion, which registered M1.7 on the Richter
Scale of solar flares, was not Earth-directed, but it did hurl a CME into
space. Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab have analyzed the
trajectory of the cloud and
found that it will hit NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft, the Spitzer space telescope,
and the rover Curiosity en route to Mars. Planets Venus and
Mars could also receive a glancing blow.
Using
data from SDO, Steele Hill of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center assembled a must-see
movie of the event. It shows
the explosion unfolding at 304Å, a wavelength which traces plasma with a
temperature around 80,000 K.”
Cassi Creek:
Please visit
Spaceweather.com and enjoy the videos of this immense CME.
The morning intruded at 0430 and I am running on a huge sleep
deficit with a lot of pain. I rarely nap
but today is a good day to try.
Strawberry season is about to open.
We took the last of last year’s frozen berries out of the freezer last
night.
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