what does a solar storm look like - 8 matching articles

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  space

  Here's what we had to say about Voyager 1 when it launched 41 years ago

  From the Popular Science archives.

  ... look more like snowballs. But what is the geology of a snowball? How does a ... the atmosphere, even studying individual storm cells. The same applies to ...
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  space

  In a shocking turn of events, lightning strikes on Jupiter look a lot like our own

  The lightning struck more than twice.

  ... find an environment in the solar system more at odds with ... are a thing), and hellacious storms of all kind. But it does share ...

  By Neel V. Patel
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  space

  Yes, Earth's magnetic poles can flip. But they probably won't anytime soon.

  But they might wobble.

  ... , the field would probably stop looking like a strong, polar structure in 2 ... instruments open to impairment. A single bad solar storm could leaves swaths of ...

  By Neel V. Patel
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  space

  NOAA's satellites are on the chopping block. Here's why we need them.

  Our eyes in the sky are facing budget cuts

  ... is out and it looks like weather forecasting satellites (like GOES and the ... of thunderstorms, giving them a heads-up when a storm is intensifying. The satellite ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  space

  How NASA is planning to touch the sun

  A look behind the scenes of NASA's advanced solar probe

  ... , high-energy particles, the fallout of solar storms, dust, and limited communication opportunities ... everything we think about a place. Just look at New Horizons and ...

  By Ian Graber-Stiehl
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  space

  Realism Makes 'The Martian' One Of The Greatest Sci-Fi Films Of All Time

  Almost as good as the book

  ... , it's probably going to look a lot like you'll see in The Martian ... Mars does have huge, powerful sandstorms, the destructive force of the storm ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  space

  'The Science Guy' Talks About His Space Sail

  Slow but steady sun-powered spacecraft could transform space travel

  ... Carson. The toy was a mockup of a solar sail—a revolutionary idea for ... ? Looking for coronal mass ejections on the Sun, or solar storms and solar weather. ...

  By Loren Grush
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  space

  Why Thousands Of People Are Willing To Die On Mars

  More than 200,000 aspiring space explorers volunteered for a one-way trip to Mars. Are they insane?

  ... Mars. Or at least, a rock that looked a little like a pastry, with white ... winter, frequent and ferocious dust storms, an unbreathable atmosphere consisting mainly ...

  By Daniel Engber
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  Can We Predict Global Dust Storms On Mars?

  Future astronauts may depend on it, and a new forecast is about to be put to the test

  ... the sun and shrouding solar panels beneath a layer of dust. Currently ... year. If it's right and a planet-sized storm does happen this season, it ...

  By Kate Baggaley
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  Solar Storms Cause Huge Auroras On Jupiter

  Northern lights

  ... between Jupiter's aurora and a solar storm, also known a a coronal mass ejection or ... storm passed, the aurora went back to normal. Researchers are still looking ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  space

  NASA lost contact with Opportunity Mars rover, but there's still hope

  It's caught in a storm that now covers a quarter of the planet, and is still growing.

  ... get enough light on its solar panels to recharge them, Opportunity ... the possibility of a global dust storm, but it does add an element ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Weather got you down? The entire planet of Mars is buried in a dust storm right now.

  But that's not too weird for the red planet.

  ... atmosphere, they'll end up feeling like just a refreshing breeze.” (Sorry, Mark ... solar panels (as is the upcoming InSight lander). When you have a storm ...

  By Neel V. Patel
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  space

  Why doesn't anyone live on the moon yet?

  Solar storms, sharp sand, and near-weightlessness are just the tip of the iceberg.

  ... that crucial magnetic field, a solar storm engulfing a lunar settlement could be potentially ... , we'd have to use substances like water or polyethylene, which contain ...

  By Alex Schwartz
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  space

  Blame loose screws and 'excessive optimism' for the latest delay of NASA's new space telescope

  James Webb is now slated for a 2021 launch—only a bajillion years late.

  ... the new IRB would take a closer look at the project's myriad ... the centuries-old storm on the largest planet in the solar system. With ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  space

  New Solar Storm Forecasting Technique Breaks The 24-Hour Warning Barrier For Earth

  Better predictions can help us prepare

  ... magnetic field within a solar storm has a helical structure, twisted like a corkscrew. But, much ... like tornadoes on Earth, these solar storms ...
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  space

  52 of Cassini's most beautiful postcards from the outer solar system

  The spacecraft completely changed our view of Saturn and her moons

  ... of the largest southern hemisphere storms. It eventually wrapped around the ... and its rings, forming what looks like a :neutral_face:.A giant hexagon, each side ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  space

  We may have accidentally formed a protective bubble around Earth

  Radio waves might help protect us from space weather.

  ... , when electrons shooting out from a solar storm approach Earth, VLF waves deflect ... first hours to a couple of days into a solar storm, the waves seem ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  space

  NASA's Opportunity rover is sleeping through a massive dust storm on Mars

  The rover shut down science activities a few days ago.

  ... But this storm was headed right for Opportunity, a determined solar powered rover ... still much smaller than a 2007 dust storm that knocked Opportunity out ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  space

  That time a bunch of underwater mines exploded and the sun was the only suspect

  Some serious space weather at play.

  ... the journal Space Weather, a powerful solar storm likely triggered the mines' magnetic ... of solar activity. Which begs the question: how often do storms like these ...

  By Neel V. Patel
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  space

  Why The Deadly Sandstorm In 'The Martian' Is Impossible

  A matter of momentum

  ... Ares 3 crew runs into a dust storm with 105-mph winds, the ... Earth,” Dave Lavery from NASA's Solar System Exploration program told Popular ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  space

  NASA Will Release New Portraits Of The Earth From Space Every Day

  A daily dose of beautiful from the DSCOVR satellite

  ... when the Sun sends out solar storms. Solar storms are huge emissions of charged ... Sun at high speeds. When a solar storm interacts with Earth's magnetic field ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Why Can't We Live On Mars? Blame The Sun

  Findings from the MAVEN spacecraft suggest solar eruptions helped to destroy Mars' atmosphere

  ... ago, Mars might have looked a lot like Earth. It had vast amounts ... this wasn't even a particularly big solar storm. Nevertheless, "today's solar storms are like windows into ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  space

  Check out the closest ever view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

  Looking into a massive storm.

  ... Red Spot. The spot is a storm 10,000 miles across—large ... features that they'd like Juno to take a closer look at over the ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  space

  NASA's latest effort to revive Opportunity will likely be the last

  The window of Opportunity is closing.

  ... its weight. To recap: a gargantuan dust storm swelled over the red ... NASA chose to move Opportunity, a solar powered rover, into an energy-saving ...

  By Neel V. Patel