Sun Blasts Another CME At Earth and Mars

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 23, 2012 @04:22PM from the careful-you-could-put-an-eye-out dept.

astroengine writes "On Friday, the sun hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) at our planet that sparked a strong geomagnetic storm and beautiful aurorae at high latitudes. Late on Sunday (EST), the sun unleashed yet another Earth-bound CME after an M9 flare erupted over a particularly active sunspot region — the CME is expected to hit Earth on Tuesday and Mars on Wednesday. This series of flares and CMEs have ignited the strongest period of solar storms since 2005, according to an NOAA space weather advisory."

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Correction by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-23 16:24 · Score: 5, Funny

I think you mean "Oracle Blasts Another CME At Earth and Mars"
Strongest period of storms... by pie21 · 2012-01-23 16:34 · Score: 5, Funny

This series of flares and CMEs have ignited the strongest period of solar storms since 2005, according to an NOAA space weather advisory.
Sounds like pretty clear evidence of solar warming to me.
Re:They rank these storms by similar_name · 2012-01-23 18:00 · Score: 4, Funny

It goes from C or M all the way up to X5
Is that better than 11?