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Solar Storm Dumps Gigawatts into Earth's Upper Atmosphere
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<blockquote data-quote="Topper" data-source="post: 793786" data-attributes="member: 186250"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>March 22, 2012:</strong> A recent flurry of eruptions on the sun did more than spark pretty auroras around the poles. NASA-funded researchers say the solar storms of March 8[SUP]th[/SUP] through 10[SUP]th[/SUP] dumped enough energy in Earth’s upper atmosphere to power every residence in New York City <em>for two years</em>.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">“This was the biggest dose of heat we’ve received from a solar storm since 2005,” says Martin Mlynczak of NASA Langley Research Center. “It was a big event, and shows how solar activity can directly affect our planet.”</span></span></p><p></p><p>Full Story</p><p></p><p>-http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/22mar_saber/</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Topper, post: 793786, member: 186250"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial][B]March 22, 2012:[/B] A recent flurry of eruptions on the sun did more than spark pretty auroras around the poles. NASA-funded researchers say the solar storms of March 8[SUP]th[/SUP] through 10[SUP]th[/SUP] dumped enough energy in Earth’s upper atmosphere to power every residence in New York City [I]for two years[/I].[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]“This was the biggest dose of heat we’ve received from a solar storm since 2005,” says Martin Mlynczak of NASA Langley Research Center. “It was a big event, and shows how solar activity can directly affect our planet.”[/FONT][/COLOR] Full Story -http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/22mar_saber/ [/QUOTE]
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