Space Hurricane

I thought that this was interesting to find another article about what is going on in space, and how this storm from the sun affects us/ our planet. From what I gather from this article, the solar storm is not a threat to us (nothing harmful).

The wave of particles that came from the intense solar storm did effect the airline flight and satellite. The storm began on Monday when a powerful solar flare erupted from the sun. And from that eruption a stream of charged particles came toward Earth. This electromagnetic burst — called a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). The CME is like a space hurricane that will interact with the Earth's magnetic field.Then there was talk about it being the highest radiation level since to the Halloween storm on 2003. This storm forced the airlines to  change routes. "Most of the major airlines flying polar [routes], or even some non-polar, high-altitude routes, have taken action to mitigate the effect of this storm," says Bill Murtagh, the center's program coordinator.  


The reason why I found this article to be important to share is because not only does it have to do with the environment of space and what may effect our planet. But these solar storm that release charged particles have effect on anything electronic, which everything today is run by some electricity. Yihua Zheng, the lead researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center says that "Probably in the next 10 hours or so, people at high latitudes can see auroras." What this might do is cause communication errors at polar caps, but the magnetic activities will probably not be that strong. 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46118390/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.Tx8RT3NuHrU
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