Did you know that the U.S. National Weather Service keeps track of conditions in space? Well, they do, and they have a niffty website you can visit to keep up-to-date on all kinds of activity in space.
We don’t often get to see Auroras in Kansas, but now I can keep tabs on the aurora forecast. Here’s one that was current when I wrote this post:
Cool, huh?
The site also has information on Solar X-ray flux, any Radio blackouts caused by Solar activity, Geomagnetic storms, and more.
Be sure to check it out sometime.
Space Environment Center (NWS)
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1 Doug Patterson // Dec 8, 2006 at 6:36 am
You can also see live solar wind data from ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) and SOHO (SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory) at http://www.spaceweather.com
With the current Moon/Mars initiative, understanding the energetic particle environment outside of our magnetic field is going to be critical to crew safety. We got VERY lucky during the Apollo missions that a solar event didn’t happen during one of the out-of-magnetosphere missions.
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