Tag: Space Weather

An X9 flare, which can be seen in the lower half of the sun, captured by GOES-19’s Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) instrument on Oct. 3, 2024. (Image credit: NOAA)

Five Historically Huge Solar Events

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Science

4/21/2025 - By noaa.gov. Space weather impacts numerous facets of everyday life, including power grids, communications, airline operations, global positioning systems (GPS), and satellites. In addition, there are a large variety of phenomena that are driven by the variability of the sun over periods ranging from hours to years. Solar flares are… SEE MORE

Solar
Space Weather
Storms

How Space Weather Could Wreck NASA’s Return to the Moon

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Weather & Tides

5/23/2021 - By Neel V. Patel. Is NASA really going to return humans to the moon in 2024? That was the increasingly unlikely mandate issued to the agency by the Trump administration. President Biden hasn’t changed that goal yet, although most experts expect him to give NASA some much-needed breathing room and reset that… SEE MORE

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Space Weather