Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Computer model begins "new era in space weather prediction," scientists say
Washington – Mainly true-to-life computer imitation ever made of the sun's multimillion-degree outer atmosphere, the aura, productively predicted the corona’s actual look during the March 29 solar eclipse.
Funded by NASA and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the computer replica marks the start of a new era in space-weather forecast, solar scientists said.
Space weather is the name for situation and procedure that occur in space and that could affect the near-Earth environment.
These comprise changes in the interplanetary attractive field; coronal mass ejections from the sun that could send dangerous, high-energy charged particles to Earth; and turbulence in Earth's magnetic field.
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