NASA Scientists Answer Top Space Weather Questions [720p] [3D converted]
Channel: djxatlanta
Date: 2012-05-01

NASA scientists answer some common questions about the sun, space weather, and how they affect the Earth. This is a two-part series.

Part One addresses:

1. What is space weather?
2. What are coronal mass ejections?
3. What are solar flares?
4. What are solar energetic particles?
5. What causes flares and CMEs?

Part Two addresses:

1. Do all flares and CMEs affect the Earth?
2. What happens when a flare or CME hits the Earth?
3. How quickly can we feel the effects of space weather?
4. Why are there more flares and CMEs happening now?

credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10959