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Impacts of Strong Solar Flares

05.13.2013
While we need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space weather, some people worry that a gigantic flare could hurl enough energy to destroy Earth, but this is not actually possible.
Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured this series of four images of a coronal mass ejection (CME) escaping the sun on the morning of April 25, 2013.

The Sun Sends Two CMEs Toward Mercury

04.25.2013
On April 24-25, 2013, the sun erupted with two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that can affect electronic systems in satellites. Missions Messenger and STEREO-A maybe affected.
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NASA Mission to Study What Disrupts Radio Waves

04.25.2013
The EVEX (Equatorial Vortex Experiment) sounding rocket help scientists better understand and predict the electrical storms in Earth's upper atmosphere that can interfere with satellite signals.
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