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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

13.7: Cosmos And Culture

Storms In The Void: Space Weather And Childhood's End

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory keeps an eye on the sun's massively energetic surface. It provides advance warning of events that threaten the Earth.

January 24, 2012 The most powerful solar storm to blast the Earth since 2005 reminds us that our modern society, with its dependance on electronics in the sky and on the ground, is vulnerable to a type of weather we rarely think about: space weather.

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