Big solar storm hitting Earth (so CNN says)
September 16, 2014
September, 2014 coronal mass ejection
SESDA 3 staff braced for the possible next “big” one – a significant X-class flare erupted on September 10, 2014 and produced two Coronal Mass Ejections (CME’s) directed towards Earth. By combining real-time imagery from three spacecraft – SOHO, STEREO, and SDO, staff helped provide accurate space weather forecasts of the speed and intensity of the powerful storms as they impacted Earth’s magnetosphere. Fortunately, the storms did not knock out the power grid and instead generated beautiful aurora at high latitudes.
