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16 April 2013Insurance

A cosmic tsunami

Space weather can be described as the effects of changes in the ambient plasma, magnetic fields, radiation, and associated matters in a given region of space. It is driven primarily by solar activity, ie, events occurring on the surface of the sun such as coronal mass ejections and solar flares, and such solar phenomena track the cyclical nature of sunspot activity.

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