'Collecting photos from around the world, we have a huge opportunity to learn more about auroras through citizen science,' researcher Elizabeth MacDonald said.
While the powerful solar storm that hit our planet last weekend triggered spectacular aurora displays across large swaths of the world, it was also a golden opportunity for NASA to study space weather.The May 10 'extreme' G5 geomagnetic storm, sparked by a series of coronal mass ejections from the sun, was the most powerful in decades, and led to auroras being seen across all 50 U.S. states and beyond.This storm, as well as an X8.
'The CMEs all arrived largely at once, and the conditions were just right to create a really historic storm,' Elizabeth MacDonald, a NASA heliophysics citizen science lead and a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in the statement.The auroras caused by the May 10 storm were seen as far south as Florida and Mexico, as well as Germany and Italy, and even northern India.
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