Halloween Solar Storms Anniversary
October 31, 2008
On Halloween in 2003, the sun unleashed a series of spooky storms, which ignited lots of ghostly looking auroras, and effected power grids, satellites and other electrical equipment. On the fifth anniversary, NASA takes a look back at the Sun.
credit: NASA
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Technology Internet, Environment, Planetary science, Space plasmas, Plasma physics, Sun, NASA, Halloween, Electrical phenomena, Aurora