Solar CME Shockwave Hits Magnetosphere | S0 News July.16.2017
For your information there's a short video upload from YouTube about geomagnetic impacts
Published on Jul 16, 2017
July 16, 2017: CME STRIKE SPARKS GEOMAGNETIC STORMS: Geomagnetic storms are underway on July 16th following a CME strike at 0545 UT. Auroras have been sighted in New Zealand as well as US states such as Washington and Wyoming. The storms are intensifying as Earth moves into the CME's magnetized wake. They are currently category G2 (moderately strong). Arrived on schedule.
Coronal mass ejections are lively bursts of plasma that send geomagnetic shockwaves across the solar system. The bigger ones that cross paths with Earth can wreak havoc on satellites in space, potentially disrupting radio transmissions or (for really rare and massive ones) knocking power grids offline. The plasma emitted from these ejections pummel Earth’s protective magnetosphere and slide around into its polar regions, clashing with the atmosphere . . .
OK Here's "a happy accident" reported yesterday
One of NASA’s Solar Orbiter tools caught its first video of a coronal mass ejection
An instrument aboard NASA and ESA’s Solar Orbiter had a “happy accident”
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