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Sun Blasts Out Strongest Flare Of 2013

Friday, April 12, 2013 18:03
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Accompanying coronal mass ejection takes flight at 600 miles per second

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The strongest solar flare of 2013 has been reported by NASA, an event that while it was rated only at the middle (an M6.5) on the scale of the sun’s events, still released a coronal mass ejection at more than 600 miles per second, according to NASA.

The event once again offered a warning about a major flare that could produce a wave of energy that would hit the earth with an electro-magnetic pulse that would produce devastating effects on electrical grids and other systems that are needed for food, fuel and water distribution, and whose lose could cost millions of lives. 

NASA reported that the flare happened early Thursday and was “associated with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, another solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space and can reach Earth one to three days later.”

“CME’s can affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. Experimental NASA research models show that the CME began at 3:30 a.m. EDT … leaving the sun at over 600 miles per second.

“Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however – when intense enough – they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. This disrupts the radio signals for as long as the flare is ongoing, anywhere from minutes to hours.”

NASA continued, “This flare is classified as an M6.5, some 10 times less powerful than the stronger flares, which are labeled X-class flares. M-class flares are the weakest flares that can still cause some space weather effects near Earth.”

It reported that this event caused a radio blackout that since faded.
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