Sun is amping up here we go again.
Haven’t been paying much attention to
the Sun, but this one got my attention.
SOLAR PROTONS ARE RAINING DOWN ON EARTH: Energetic protons from the sun are striking the top of Earth’s atmosphere today following a strong solar flare during the early hours of Jan. 29th. This is called a “radiation storm,” and it is currently a category S2 event. Such a storm can cause elevated levels of radiation in airplanes flying over Earth’s poles and unwanted glitches in the electronics of Earth-orbiting satellites.
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BIG SUNSPOTS VISIBLE FROM MARS: Yesterday, Mars rover Perseverance looked up at the sun and saw an impressive group of sunspots. Take a look at this image. At first glance, those fuzzy spots might not seem impressive. However, the camera Perseverance uses to look at the sun puts only 90 pixels across the solar disk; a sunspot group has to be big to register. This “Martian sunspot group” is not visible from Earth now, but it will turn toward us later this week. Solar flare alerts: SMS Text
SOLAR PROTONS ARE RAINING DOWN ON EARTH: Energetic protons from the sun are striking the top of Earth’s atmosphere today following a strong solar flare during the early hours of Jan. 29th. This is called a “radiation storm,” and it is currently a category S2 event. Such a storm can cause elevated levels of radiation in airplanes flying over Earth’s poles and unwanted glitches in the electronics of Earth-orbiting satellites.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the M6.8-class solar flare, which started this storm:
The source of the flare was departing sunspot AR3559. Not all flares cause radiation storms, but this one did because the sunspot is unusually well connected to Earth.
That may seem counterintuitive, because the sunspot is not directly facing our planet. However, when sunspots are near the sun’s western limb (as AR3559 is), they can link to Earth magnetically.
Protons accelerated by the flare are now following the Parker Spiral toward Earth and raining down on our atmosphere.
~ Mary Long ❤️
diagram below.

