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SPACEWEATHER: CME Headed to Venus and Flare at the Sun’s South Pole

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 02/17/2024

CME TO STRIKE VENUS: A CME launched into space by yesterday’s X-flare won’t strike Earth, however, it will hit Venus according to a NASA model. The strike on Venus (Feb. 18th) will probably erode a small amount of Venus’s upper atmosphere. CMEs do not erode Earth’s atmosphere because, unlike Venus, our planet is protected by a global magnetic field. 

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