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SOLAR WATCH * Huge X8.2 Flare Sept. 10, 2017! (Updated Daily)
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CHANCE OF FLARES: NOAA forecasters have upgraded the chance of X-class solar flares today to 20%. The source would be AR1339, one of the biggest sunspots in many years. The active region rotated over the sun's eastern limb two days ago and now it is turning toward Earth The flare created waves of ionization in Earth's upper atmosphere, altering the normal propagation of radio waves over Europe and the Americas. In Ireland, the flare's effect was felt even after dark. A cloud of plasma or "CME" raced away from the blast site at 1100 km/s. The CME is not heading for Earth. It is, however, heading for Mercury and Venus. Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab say the CME will hit Mercury on Nov. 4th around 16:14 UT. NASA's MESSENGER probe in orbit around Mercury will be monitoring the effects of the impact. If the CME overwhelms Mercury's relatively weak magnetic field, it could scour material off the planet's surface creating a temporary atmosphere and adding material to Mercury's comet-like tail. The CME should hit Venus on Nov. 5th; the gossamer cloud will probably break harmlessly against the top of planet's ultra-dense atmosphere. [ link to spaceweather.com] Quoting: NiNzrez "could scour material off the planet's surface" yikes!! Quoting: HMN i know!! poor Mercury Quoting: NiNzrez indeed lol, i got a visual flash of the epic scene in "knowing" where the solar flare/cme (not sure which it was in movie or would be in real life, i think cme) wiped out EVERYTHING on earth lol likely not to happen of course Quoting: HMN hahaha i had the same visual of mercury hmmm i would have to watch the movie again, but i would think it was a CME i will have to watch it again
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