SOLAR ACTIVITY: Late on June 21st, something behind the sun's eastern limb exploded and hurled a coronal mass ejection into space: movie. The expanding cloud is not directed at Earth. The explosion could herald the emergence of a farside active region. Readers with solar telescopes should be alert for further activity.
spaceweather.com
solar storm may impact Earth on July 7, 2009,
NASA are also showing concern, here is a report from APOD I posted on the Wobble this morning! The Big Wobble earlier today
Earth’s magnetosphere changes into the shape of a “jellyfish” whenever it is impacted by a severe solar storm Whenever a severe solar storm impacts directly on Earth, then our planetary magnetic field or “magnetosphere” changes into the general shape of a “jellyfish”: see watch or watch.
That seems to be what those crop artists were telling us at Wayland’s Smithy on May 29, 2009:
Read story at Cropcircleconnector
Earlier warnings this month!
Must read, possible solar flare and caronal mass ejection early July!
Report here Earthfiles
May 12, 2009 - Astronomical Information
in U.K. 2009 Crop Formations?
“In these 2009 progressions of crop patterns so far,it seems like the circlemakers are describing a combined ‘solar flare
and coronal mass ejection’ on the apogee full Moon
of July 7, 2009.” - Australian scientist
Comparison of May 10, 2009, Roundway Hill, Wiltshire, England, “solar flares and coronal mass ejections” compared to Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
(SOHO) image of coronal mass ejection (CME) in previous years. Aerial image
© 2009 by Lucy Pringle; CME by SOHO. Images and information by: Cropcircleconnector.
See the cropcircles here
Solar storm explained
A Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field
Dec. 16, 2008: NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. Solar wind can flow in through the opening to "load up" the magnetosphere for powerful geomagnetic storms. But the breach itself is not the biggest surprise. Researchers are even more amazed at the strange and unexpected way it forms, overturning long-held ideas of space physics.
"At first I didn't believe it," says THEMIS project scientist David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "This finding fundamentally alters our understanding of the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction."
The magnetosphere is a bubble of magnetism that surrounds Earth and protects us from solar wind. Exploring the bubble is a key goal of the THEMIS mission, launched in February 2007. The big discovery came on June 3, 2007, when the five probes serendipitously flew through the breach just as it was opening. Onboard sensors recorded a torrent of solar wind particles streaming into the magnetosphere, signaling an event of unexpected size and importance.
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