Coronal Mass Ejection Heads for Earth

Here Comes the Sun

A "full halo" coronal mass ejection left the Sun yesterday, apparently headed directly for Earth. When the leading edge of the disturbance reaches our planet on Feb. 19 or 20, it could trigger aurora and other geomagnetic activity.

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NEWS NOTE: Radio scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have made a detailed analysis of data taken by a radio telescope at Stanford University on Jan. 4 and believe the suspect signal is more likely of terrestrial origin and not from Mars Polar Lander. Further analysis of data taken by radio telescopes in the Netherlands, Italy and at Stanford on Feb. 8 has not yielded any signal from Mars Polar Lander.

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