Sentences with phrase «powerful space weather events»
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Known as «superflares,» the spaceweatherevents were thought to be roughly 10 times more powerful than any solar storm that has struck Earth since the advent of modern civilization.
NASA's Global - Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument was launched into orbit earlier today atop an Ariane 5 rocket, with a mission to shed light on how the uppermost layers of Earth's atmosphere can be affected by powerfulspace and Earth - based weatherevents.