Typical hurricanes are easy to spot in satellite imagery: Swirling clouds surround a quiet eye. These storms usually form in the lowest layer of the atmosphere, closer to Earth’s surface, and unleash heavy rain and strong winds.
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Tau.Neutrino said:
Scientists spotted a ‘space hurricane’ swirling above the magnetic north pole. It was raining charged solar particles.Typical hurricanes are easy to spot in satellite imagery: Swirling clouds surround a quiet eye. These storms usually form in the lowest layer of the atmosphere, closer to Earth’s surface, and unleash heavy rain and strong winds.
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Earth’s aurora as seen from space. Normally this forms a rapidly varying ring. Bit in this case a spiral formation was seen.
“A study published in the journal Nature Communications last month describes the first space hurricane ever spotted. In August 2014, satellites observed a swirling mass with a quiet center more than 201km above the North Pole.”
When you think about it, the density of the atmosphere 201 km up is pretty thin.
