Having a Solar Blast
Posted by brandoniswrite on June 8, 2011
The Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare, an S1-class (minor) radiation storm and a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) on June 7, 2011 from sunspot complex 1226-1227. The large cloud of particles mushroomed up and fell back down looking as if it covered an area of almost half the solar surface. The Solar Dynamics [...]
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Three Satellites See Eruption of Puyehue-Cordón Volcano from Space
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NASA’s Terra Satellite, the GOES-13 and GOES-11 satellites all captured images of the ash plume from southern Chile’s Puyehue-Cordón Volcano this week. The volcano is located in Puyehue National Park in the Andes of Ranco Province of Chile. The Terra satellite flew over the volcano on June 6 at 14:25 UTC (10:25 a.m. EDT). The [...]
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Tags: Eruption, From, PuyehueCordón, satellites, Space, Three, Volcano
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