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Friday, August 10, 2012

August 10th Sun-Earth Forecast

The above X-ray image of the sun was taken August 10th at 03:40 UTC by the Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) aboard the GOES-15 satellite. Image Credit: NOAA

Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to remain quiet on August 10th. But August 11th and 12th are expected to be quiet to unsettled due to the effects of the interaction between the two magnetic filaments that lifted off the solar disk on August 7th and 8th, and the co-rotating interaction region ahead of a coronal hole high speed stream.

Back on the Sun, solar activity is expected to be low with a slight chance for an isolated M-class flare. Stay tuned...

To monitor solar flare activity minute by minute, visit the "Today's Space Weather" page of NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, URL: www.swpc.noaa.gov .

To learn more about the sun and to stay current on solar activity, visit the mission home pages of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov .

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