CME image data

According to foreign media reports, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data, the first active sunspot group NOAA 1401 has already broken out, resulting in a M3-class solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CME). Coronal mass ejections of electrons and protons to form cloud spread straight from the earth, and in January 21, 2012 arrived in Earth’s atmosphere, more accurate time standard for the world 22:30; 16:30 U.S. Central Time. At this moment, we can see the beauty in the high latitudes of the aurora or northern lights. Given the current Earth and Mars orbit the sun just the same side, these coronal mass ejections arrived at Earth in the following, will continue, “went to” Mars, and arrived in January 24.

the sequence active sunspot group NOAA 1401 outbreak of the time in January 19, 2012, the world’s standard 16:30; 12:30 U.S. Central Time. The figure shows the solar surface out of the halo projectile coronal mass gradually to expand in space. Solar flares are formed by the strong solar eruptions of energy release, resulting in light, high-speed particles into space. Generally occur in sunspot active region. These flares are usually associated with the solar magnetic storms, the scientists speculated that the release of the energy from the sun in the magnetic activity, coronal short form for the release of magnetic energy.

from the sun when such a “space storm” hit the Earth, they will cause the failure of electronic communications, as well as satellites in orbit. If your phone in this day go wrong, please blame the sun. Our space monitoring of solar activity mainly from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), the space-based observation platforms clearly recorded the first NOAA 1401 and 1402 sunspot activity zone a few days before the flares, by the This produced a coronal mass ejection and “toward” the earth. Solar Dynamics Observatory camera equipped with a series of space on each interval of a few seconds to observe the surface of the sun taken in the imaging process, uses a variety of filters.

The observations of coronal mass ejections collected a total of 11 hours of continuous data. Video shows the January 16, 2012 world standard 03-14 hours between the first NOAA 1401 and 1402 sunspot activity zone in the “coronal mass ejections.” And the video is not a complete process, which is an active area of ??about 1100 images superimposed sunspot production, and therefore, the process occurs in real time on sunspots than the time shown on the video more.

After that, coronal mass ejections will be straight after it passes through the Earth, “toward the” Mars. At present, Earth and Mars are in the same side of the hemisphere the sun, and Earth will be March 3, 2012 Run to the sun between Mars and closer to the position, which is the first time in two years. Therefore, this not only affects the Earth’s coronal mass ejections, but also have the opportunity to Martian magnetic field environment of space affects.

that the interest in coronal mass ejections on the influence of Mars, one of the reasons is that during a Mars probe was rushed to the road. It was launched in November 2011 of “Mars Science Laboratory”, also known as “curious” rovers. It landed on Mars and roaming, but now it is done on the detection of this study solar storms. NASA’s “Mars Science Laboratory” before they can be set on the detector during the flight of the space environment in the detection task, detection of high-energy particles from the sun with the communication process and how to change .