☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢ "RADIATION STORM...
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☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢ "RADIATION STORM IN PROGRESS" ☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢
Solar protons accelerated by this morning's M9-class solar flare are streaming past Earth. On the NOAA scale of radiation storms, this one ranks S3, which means it could, e.g., cause isolated reboots of computers on board Earth-orbiting satellites and interfere with polar radio communications. An example of satellite effects: The "snow" in this SOHO chronograph movie is caused by protons hitting the observatory's on board camera...
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