3d photos of sun now available.

rbell · Apr 23, 2007

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Scientists look forward to studying solar storms.

From the article:

That depth perception is also particularly helpful for studying a type of solar eruption called a coronal mass ejection. Along with overloading power lines and disrupting satellite communications, the eruptions can endanger astronauts on spacewalks. Scientists would like to improve predictions of the arrival time from the current day or so to a few hours, said Russell Howard, principal investigator for the Naval Research Laboratory project.

The eruptions - also called solar flares - typically blow a billion tons of the sun's atmosphere into space at a speed of 1 million mph. Besides power and communications problems, the phenomenon is responsible for the northern lights, or aurora borealis, the luminous display of lights seen in the upper latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.
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It wouldn't surprise me if they find out (surprise!) a correlation between our primary heat source--the sun itself--and fluctuations in temperature. If that happens, the cover-up and backpeddaling could be entertaining (or sad).

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