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www.greenpeace.org This fragile Earth needs action. It needs you. Music by Hecq. Additional images from NASA and ESA

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Solar Tsunami 2010. The earth could be hit by a wave of violent space weather as early as Tuesday after a massive explosion of the sun, scientists have warned.

…Solar Tsunami 2010 - pic source telegraph.co.uk
NASA solar dynamics observatory detected on Sunday a complex magnetic eruption on the sun. NASA said earth orbiting satellites detected a solar tsunami or a C3-class solar flare (not very large) on August 1 around 0855 UT (3:55 am EST).
The Earth could be hit by a solar tsunami anytime now as an unusually complex magnetic eruption on the Sun has flung a large cloud of electrically charged particles towards our planet, scientists have warned.
Several satellites, including Nasa’s new Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), recorded on Sunday a small solar flare erupting above sunspot 1092, the size of the Earth….

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