Earth-directed coronal mass...

Signs in the sun...



Earth-directed coronal mass ejection from the sun March 15, 2013 by Karen C. Fox Enlarge The ESA and NASA Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured these images of the sun spitting out a coronal mass ejection (CME) on March 15, 2013, from 3:24 to 4:00 a.m. EDT. This type of image is known as a coronagraph, since a disk is placed over the sun to better see the dimmer atmosphere around it, called the corona. Credit: ESA&NASA/SOHO (Phys.org) —On March 15, 2013, at 2:54 a.m. EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space and can reach Earth one to three days later and affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 900 miles per second, which is a fairly fast speed for CMEs. Historically, CMEs at this speed have caused mild to moderate effects at Earth. google_protectAndRun("render_ads.js::google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);Ads by GoogleBP Committed to the Gulf - Waters & Restaurants are Open. The Gulf is Back. Learn More on BP.com. - www.BP.com The NASA research models also show that the CME may pass by the Spitzer and Messenger spacecraft. NASA has notified their mission operators. There is, however, only minor particle radiation associated with this event, which is what would normally concern operators of interplanetary spacecraft since the particles can trip on board computer electronics. Not to be confused with a solar flare, a CME is a solar phenomenon that can send solar particles into space and reach Earth one to three days later. Earth-directed CMEs can cause a space weather phenomenon called a geomagnetic storm, which occurs when they connect with the outside of the Earth's magnetic envelope, the magnetosphere, for an extended period of time. In the past, geomagnetic storms caused by CMEs such as this one have usually been of mild to medium strength. Provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-03-earth-directed-coronal-mass-ejection-sun.html#jCp

"CMEs such as this one have usually been of mild to medium strength."
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Recently I have been seeing NASA trying to make these events sound very threatening and upon watching the KP index and other indicators they are really no worse than decades ago.

While not trying to down play such events too much... let's remember they no longer work with us and one must use caution with anything they say or do because they are not warning you of other dangers in space right now that they know about + adjusting, deleting and modifying pictures to prevent the public from seeing certain things.... well, I'd call them liars of sorts for not sharing research paid for by you and I.

Try these for space and earth weather related.
Dave

http://www.haarpstatus.com/status.html
http://www.solarham.net
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/scmag/disp-scmag.cgi
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/magnetometer/gak-mag.cgi
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/ashtech/tec.cgi
http://www.spaceweather.com/
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/warnings_timeline.html
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/index.html
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html
http://pixie.spasci.com/DynMod/
http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/Aurora/ovation_live/ovationdisplay.cgi?pole=N&type=N
http://www.haarpstatus.com/haarpstatus/haarpmap.html
http://virga.sfsu.edu/gif/jetstream_init_00.gif

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat-bin/display10.cgi?SIZE=thumb&PHOT=yes&AREA=pacific/eastern/sierra&PROD=vis&TYPE=ssmi&NAV=epac_westcoast&DISPLAY=Latest&CGI=epac_westcoast.cgi&CURRENT=20090102.2300.goes11.vis.x.pt_mugu.x.jpg&MOSAIC_SCALE=25

http://www.chemtrailforecast.com/main.html

ALSO USE WORLD SEISMOGRAPHS AS PRIME INDICATOR FOR LARGE EARTHQUAKES RELATED TO ELECTRO-MAGNETIC FIELD INTERFERENCE FROM SPACE. Usually they will all go off and look equal, either like large eq's everywhere or all black looking indicating either Sun activity or objects influencing the Sun Earth magnetic field with no real Sun activity. (Sun last link below)

use these two for this purpose:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.phphttp://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/warnings_timeline.html