Sun-Earth Day 2008: Space Weather Around the World
IMAGE GALLERY
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Picture of an auroral storm over Canada taken from the DMSP satellite at night. (Courtesy - DMSP).
This image appears in the Technology Through Time article, #61: "What Causes An Auroral Storm?".
Space Weather Fact
The August 4, 1972 solar flare was so powerful that, by some estimates, a spacesuited astronaut would have received a lethal does of radiation.
