Burnt by the Sun: high proton density solar winds sear planet’s magnetosphere
The magnetosphere is holding but it is being seared by the very-dense solar winds emanting from the solar prominence that erupted on the Sun on Tuesday. The storm is only grazing the Earth’s magnetosphere and the planet was spared a full frontal assault from the solar eruption but it is, nonetheless, still causing quite a stir. Proton density counts in the solar wind stream have been rising dramatically over the last 36 hours.