Cosmic Journeys
Attack of the Sun. Massive solar eruptions take aim at our high-tech society. 93 million miles away... an angry sun vents its rage. Dark regions, called sunspots, appeared unexpectedly on its surface... a sign of rising tension within.
It had been three and a half years since the sun last erupted in fury...at the peak of an 11-year cycle of solar flare-ups.
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.
| Episode 11 - Attack of the Sun |
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