Thursday, July 11, 2013

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On the Sun spewed plasma

On the Sun spewed plasma

        NASA today announced that on July 9 at 21:09 MSK machine Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory recorded the release of clouds of charged plasma directed towards the Earth. According to specialists, the charged particles ejected reached Earth in the evening on July 12 and will cause appreciable magnetic disturbances can affect the performance of electronic devices and health of people.

     According to the monitoring data, the speed of release is now about 500 km / s, which corresponds to an average speed of solar emissions. NASA said that when the release reaches the upper atmosphere of the Earth, the poles will be visible aurora. NASA also noticed that the sun's emissions come and past Mercury, where the device works Messenger, and touches the device Juno, bound for Jupiter.

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