Monitoring Solar Activity with SDO
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 13, 2014 - At times, the sun erupts, hurling a magnetic superheated cloud of gas toward Earth. Racing at thousands of miles per second, and hundreds of times bigger than the sun, this cloud of solar particles can cause a magnetic storm near Earth, disrupting satellite communications and-in worse case scenarios-overloading power transformers. Here on Earth, Dhaneshvaran Krishnarao monitors satellite f ... more

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