space weather

space weather

Listening to the wind on Mars

From NASA: Listen to Martian wind blow across NASA’s InSight lander. The spacecraft’s seismometer and air pressure sensor picked up vibrations from 10-15 mph (16-24 kph) winds as they blew across Mars’ Elysium Planitia on Dec. 1, 2018. The seismometer readings are in the range of human hearing, but are nearly all bass and difficult to hear on laptop speakers… Read more →

UPDATE: Geomagnetic Storm Watch

Sounds scarier than it is. You may have come across some pretty dire warnings on social media about an impending “SOLAR STORM” NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a G1 “Minor Geomagnetic Storm Watch” for areas at 60-degrees latitude and northward. Notice how dire the warning is from NOAA. Not very. I read on a few of these “news”… Read more →