Solar Flare Affects China's Shortwave Communications
Yesterday’s massive solar flare affected shortwave communications in southern China according to its Xinhua news agency.
As trumpted by NASA’s 3D Sun free iPhone App, this first “X-flare” of the new solar cycle is the “strongest solar flare in more than four years.” It was observed by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and peaked at 01:56 Universal Time yesterday (Monday evening in the United States). NASA warns that X-flares are the strongest kind of solar flares and are likely to produce geomagnetic storms on Earth within about 48 hours.
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