- Strongest Solar Flare Of Year Recorded
- "The largest, most powerful solar flare of the year erupted early this morning. At this point, it is unknown if the X7-class event hurled a CME towards us. If it did, skywatchers could be in for a treat when it arrives tomorrow evening. Keep an eye on our Geomagnetic Monitor and SPaceWeather.com for more details."
UtahSkies also had an Aurora Watch earlier in the week.
- SPaceWeather.com, via UtahSkies
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- Opportunity rover finds an iron meteorite on Mars
- "NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found an iron meteorite, the first meteorite of any type ever identified on another planet. The pitted, basketball-size object is mostly made of iron and nickel according to readings from spectrometers on the rover.
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- JPL, via SpaceFlightNow; and,
- Mars Rover's Meteorite Discovery Triggers Questions
- "The discovery of an iron meteorite sitting on Mars by NASAââ¬â¢s Opportunity rover has kick-started a wide-ranging discussion as to what the find may be telling us about the planet itself, past water conditions there, and just how peppered the red planet might be with the fallen objects."
- Space.com
Space weather
Lunchy on 2005-01-21T15:47:38
Awesome! I hope we get hit hard!
:) I've recently started watching those sites in the last few weeks hoping to catch more Aroura here in southern Wisconsin where they're pretty rare. However, last Sept. we had a pretty good show. Here's some pics I took if you care to see.
http://www.aviditysoftware.com/misc/nlights
Sorry I don't have a fancy thumbnail photo album thingy, and some of them are blurry as I was using shutter speeds of 10-30 seconds, and didn't have a tripod for several of them, but there ARE some pretty good ones, at least IMO. :)
