Historic May 2024 Gannon Solar Storm Compressed Earth’s Plasmasphere

Historic May 2024 Gannon Solar Storm Compressed Earth’s Plasmasphere
By David Dickinson (https://ift.tt/ygAn9Ps)

A powerful geomagnetic superstorm is a once a generation event, happening once every 20-25 years. Such an event transpired on the night of May 10/11, 2024, when an intense solar storm slammed into the Earth’s protective magnetic sheath. Now, a recent study shows just how intrusive that storm was, and how long it took for the Earth’s plasma layer took to recover.

December 6, 2025 at 12:35AM
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