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Sun Storms: The Ultimate Homewreckers

Posted on December 18, 2008 | 0 Comments

I've been a baaaad blogger.

Headed out to San Francisco for the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, I had grand ambitions of doing it all: writing stories, editing copy, meeting scientists, hobnobbing with other writers, and of course live blogging from the meeting.

Life, it seems, had other plans. But never fear. Now that the crush of press conferences is abating, I've had some time to do almost everything on that wishlist, including getting caught up on planetary news.

I've got a couple things in the works culled from AGU, including news on arctic Mars and possibly some bits about habitable exoplanets, auroras on Jupiter and Saturn, and the controversy over lightning on Venus.

First, though, I sat in on a talk about solar storms and the surprising find that Earth's magnetosphere has been leaking big time and is even now building up a layer of solar particles.

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