Magnetic fields snaking around the sun's southeastern limb are crackling with C- and M-class solar flares. Extreme UV pulses from the flares are illuminating Earth's upper atmosphere, causing waves of ionization to ripple around the dayside of our planet. Rob Stammes detected the sudden ionospheric disturbances (SIDs) from his laboratory in Lofoton, Norway:
"The extra ionization altered the propagation of very low frequency radio signals around Northern Europe," explains Stammes. "I detected these changes using my 60 kHz SID receiver."
More ionization waves are in the offing. NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of M-class solar flares during the next 24 hours.
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Have you ever watched the sun as it follows you through the trees when walking in the dawn's early forest how it will leave sparkles along the branches moist with dew. More ...
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The Watchers - http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/08/19/what-is-happening-with-solar-observing-instruments-right-now/
Some claim has value I'll admit but this is a minimal thing but some are simply photoshopped and did not happen as claimed.
The problem
Late last night the air conditioning at Stanford University stopped. HMI & AIA images will not be available until the problem is solved, possibly Monday. The science data is unaffected, but we do not have access to the computer drives that hold the images.
Redone from the original version for those whose country was blocked because of the music. The context of the storyline is the same just the music has changed.
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A special thanks to jam2995 for playing lead guitar on both soundtracks of the gerudo segments instrumental.
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Magnetic fields snaking over the sun's northeastern limb erupted on August 18th around 01:02 UT. The M5.5 class eruption was not Earth-directed, but it could herald a significant uptick in geoeffective solar activity as the new active region turns toward Earth in the days ahead.
Morocco to India & across the Ocean
(Sahara Dust)
Have you ever been in Gerudo Valley? Listen to the music, maybe then you'll recall.
Magnetic fields snaking over the sun's northeastern limb erupted on August 18th around 01:02 UT. The M5.5 class eruption was not Earth-directed, but it could herald a significant uptick in geoeffective solar activity as the new active region turns toward Earth in the days ahead.
Morocco to India & across the Ocean
(Sahara Dust)
Have you ever been in Gerudo Valley? Listen to the music, maybe then you'll recall.
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A solar wind stream flowing from the coronal hole should reach Earth on Aug. 18-19More CMEs from AR11542 and AR11543. NOAA forecasters estimate a 15% chance of M-class solar flares today. Sunspots AR1542 and AR1543 both have 'beta-gamma' magnetic fields that harbor energy for such eruptions. Solar eruption from AR11540 to pass north of our planet. And more.
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Sunspot AR1540 erupted on August 11th, producing a long-duration M1-class solar flare that peaked around 1220 UT.
The explosion hurled a faint cloud of plasma into space. Judging from the blast site's off-center location on the solar disk, the cloud is probably not heading for Earth. This conclusion is uncertain, however. Stay tuned for additional analysis.
The multi-station Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar, sponsored by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, is also monitoring the Perseids. Bright spots in this sample radar sky map show the radiants of currently active showers
Live data from NASA http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/cmor-radiants/
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Planets align this weekend. New sunspots emerging.
2 CMEs, possibly earthbound
C8.4 2012/08/09 11:36:00
C2.7 2012/08/09 00:08:00
solar tsunami
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It's a historical time for JPL NASA Mars Science Laboratory. A first to use a sky crane lowering Curiosity down to Mars. It had never been attempted on any planet.
Images and video clips from NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity. Touchdown on Mars.
You can see more on nasa.gov/
More class M flares eruption from new sunspot AR11542 and another M class flare from another sunspot just emerging, not numbered yet, on SW (the right side of the northern hemisphere).
Sunspot 1538 has a beta-gamma magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares.
NOAA forecasters estimate a 25% chance of polar geomagnetic storms on August 7/8. That's when a coronal mass ejection (CME) hurled into space by a filament eruption on Aug. 4 could deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field.
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A filament of magnetism connecting sunspots AR1538 and AR1540 rose up and erupted on August 4th. Look for the extreme UV glow of hot plasma in this movie recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:
As the filament ripped through the sun's atmosphere, it propelled a massive CME into space: movie. The expanding cloud does not appear to be on a collision course with Earth, although a glancing blow might be possible 2 to 3 days hence. Stay tuned for further analysis.
It finally happened! A Coronal Mass Ejection blasted out from sunspots AR11538 and AR11540 with hot plasma scorching the sun's atmosphere as it burst into space.
We had waited, anticipated, calculated but the sun remained calm, on our side that is.
In fact the sun was active throughout each day from sunrise to sunset but because it is solar maximum a certain bar has been raised of expectancy in each of us to see the massive Class X Flares and since it is after all the formidable 2012 -- doomsday -- the time of reckoning -- the end of the world as we know it, the prophecies of many new and ancient. Preachers hollering from their pulpit "I'll guarantee you the raptor if only you'll sign this cheque right here or even a Will would do, but the sun remained calm.
So who and what can we blame the last several miserable days of this heat wave on? Earthquakes? Flooding the sun is to blame?
ScienceCasts: Mars Landing Sky Show
On the same night Curiosity lands on Mars, a "Martian Triangle" will appear in sunset skies of Earth. The first-magnitude apparition on August 5th gives space fans something to do while they wait for news from the Red Planet.
NASA Portal for Mars: http://www.nasa.gov/mars
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more.
