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Offline DMCakhunter

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Big Sunspot Watch for Next Week
« on: December 26, 2023, 09:09:46 PM »
https://www.spaceweather.com/
The article is on the December 26th Archive - located in the upper right. I put the text of the article below.

A SUNSPOT BIG ENOUGH TO SEE FROM MARS: Every day, NASA's Mars Perseverence rover looks at the sun to check the air for dust. It just saw a large sunspot:



Perseverance's images of the sun come from its MASTCAM (stereo mast camera), which puts about 90 pixels across the solar disk. It takes a large sunspot to show up in these low-resolution images. Today's sunspot is a behemoth, measuring at least 200,000 km from end to end.

Because Mars is orbiting over the farside of the sun, Perseverance can see approaching sunspots more than a week before we do. Consider this your 1-week warning: A really big sunspot is coming.
« Last Edit: December 27, 2023, 09:05:20 AM by DMCakhunter »

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Re: Big Sunspot Watch for Next Week
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2023, 09:30:48 PM »
Interesting forecast!  What a way to start the new year!