This is What Can Happen When a CME Hits Earth

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Universe Today-3/24/13, Nancy Atkinson

 

 

This video taken by Göran Strand from Östersund, Sweden shows what happened on March 17, 2013 when a Coronal Mass Ejection hit Earth’s magnetic field. Two days earlier, sunspot AR1692 had produced a M1-class solar flare that resulted in the CME that hit Earth.

 


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