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I bet this green soylent beats all the spinach in the world...
The Iron Sun, APOD: 1996.05.21
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap960521.html
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I bet this green soylent beats all the spinach in the world...
The Iron Sun, APOD: 1996.05.21
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap960521.html
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(via Solar storm tracked all the way from the Sun to Earth | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine)
So, when you've got two satellites running ahead of and behind Earth in orbit, namely Stereo-A and Stereo-B, you can get a fuller picture of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), as they move through the solar system, impacting Earth's magnetic field on the way. Using some advanced data processing, NASA helioscientists have now been able to track the movements of these particles out from the Sun all the way to Earth.
Here's a great still from the video, with Phil's annotation showing the CME moving out through various "layers" of space between the Sun and the Earth:
Maybe I should have been a plasma physicist. This is awesome.