Solar Storm Engulfing Earth Imaged by Spacecraft

This is a perfect reason why we need to be focusing more effort into Space Weather research, and especially prediction. The STEREO-A spacecraft imaged a coronal mass ejection (CME) impacting the Earth in December 2008.

You can read more about this event and the potential devastating affects of CME’s at Science@NASA, http://science.nasa.gov/.

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