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ScienceCasts: Massive Coronal Mass Ejection Narrowly Misses Earth

By Marc Boucher
Status Report
May 2, 2014
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ScienceCasts: Massive Coronal Mass Ejection Narrowly Misses Earth
Massive CME.
NASA

Two years ago, an intense solar storm, a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun, narrowly missed Earth. If it had hit, researchers say, we could still be picking up the pieces.

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