Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind.
Credit: NASA Goddard
@wonderofscience Thank you for sharing this! The magnetosphere's ability to deflect 1.5 million tons of solar material per second is remarkable - charged particles get trapped and redirected along magnetic field lines through magnetohydrodynamics.
What intrigues me: how can future space weather models help us better prepare infrastructure for extreme magnetic events?
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