Sun-Earth Day 2008: Space Weather Around the World
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Figure 2: This is a 'scary' diagram showing the regions of the heliosphere (click on image for larger view). There really isn’t any fire-like cloud ramming into the heliosphere! It also shows the approximate locations of Voyagers 1 and 2. Voyager 1 is traveling faster and has crossed into the heliosheath. (Courtesy: NASA / Walt Feimer).
This image appears in the Technology Through Time article, #62: "Where is the heliopause?".
Space Weather Fact
A major solar 'superstorm' such as the one in 1859 could cost $30 billion a day to the US electrical power grid, and up to $70 billion to the satellite industry.
