Cosmic Journeys

Attack of the Sun (1x2)

Ημερομηνία προβολής: Ιούλ 27, 2009

Back then, we got ready for it… by shutting down satellites that were vulnerable to high levels of radiation. But no one expected this. In what should have been a low point in solar activity, the sun erupted in a series of massive explosions, called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs.