On iPad can’t get screenshot it’s incredibly wonky!!!


update to add link. This is real time so time sensitive. In a few hours the effect will probably have dissipated.

[link to ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov (secure)]

Omg, it’s a complete mess again 2:17am est.

Now there is a massive black ball of field lines jamming up the magnetotail. Smilie pending top of page 3 by Xenophon 2:55am

Ok 2:56 and it’s past. Magnetotail and magnetic field returning to normal.

These past two hours were really quite something. Here’s the smilie, thanks again Xenophon!

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Possibility the images are result of bad data fed into simulator model due to cosmic rays hitting satellites but.........I don’t know.......