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Earth missed solar catastrophe just a year back: NASA

Darpan News Desk IANS, 25 Jul, 2014 01:09 PM
    Just a year ago, on July 23, the Earth missed being hit by a giant solar flare from the most powerful storm on the sun in over 150 years, NASA has said in a sensational revelation.
     
    "If it had hit, we would still be picking up the pieces," Daniel Baker from University of Colorado was quoted as saying about the. Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from the biggest sun storm in a century and a half. 
    "We were lucky to avoid an imminent catastrophe as the sun's aim narrowly turned away from Earth. Had it occurred a week earlier when the solar flare was pointing at us, the result could have been altogether different," the New York Post reported. 
     
    The ejection was so powerful that it would have sent us back to the dark ages. 
     
    Scientists say that a direct CME hit would have the potential to eliminate communication networks, GPS, and electrical grids to cause widespread blackout. 
     
    "Earth and its inhabitants were incredibly fortunate that the 2012 eruption happened when it did and not one week earlier," Baker added. 

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