SMOS and Swarm team up to spot huge solar storm

Solar flare captured by ESA’s Proba-2 SWAP

The Sun erupted over the weekend, flinging electromagnetic radiation towards Earth, even illuminating skies with spectacular aurora borealis. For the first time, ESA’s unlikely space weather duo of SMOS and Swarm tracked the severe solar storm — which warped Earth’s magnetic field.

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