We were given a preview of the farside from Mars that is now turning to face Earth. Is this all there is? Or is the “rest of the story” still hidden from view?
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 11/30/2025
REALLY BIG SUNSPOT ALERT: Yesterday, we issued a big sunspot alert. We were wrong. It’s *really* big. This image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the behemoth emerging over the sun’s southeastern limb on Nov. 30th.
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.
X-Class Solar Flare, 06/20/2023
The Sun has been relatively quiet for the past few weeks. Yesterday, the Sun shares the Solar Winds from an X-Class Solar Flare to herald the Summer Solstice.
CME TO STRIKE VENUS AND MARS: A CME launched into space by yesterday’s X-flare (described below) may not strike Earth, however, it will hit Venus and Mars, according to a NASA model. The strike on Venus (June 22nd) will probably erode a small amount of the planet’s upper atmosphere, while the strike on Mars (June 25th) could spark auroras visible to MAVEN and other Mars-orbiting satellites.
X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE AND CME: New sunspot AR3341 erupted on June 20th, producing an X1.1-class solar flare (1709 UT). NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the extreme ultraviolet flash.
Auroras, Taken by Dustin MacDougall on April 11, 2023 @ Lake Of The Woods, Ontario, Canada – Spaceweather.com Aurora Gallary
Spaceweather.com News: 04/12/2023 (An End for a New Beginning)
SOLAR MAX MIGHT ARRIVE EARLY: Solar Maximum is coming–maybe this year. New research by a leading group of solar physicists predicts maximum sunspot activity in late 2023 or early 2024, a full year earlier than other forecasts.
“This is based on our work with the Termination Event,” explains Scott McIntosh, lead author of a paper describing the prediction, published in the January 2023 edition of Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences.
