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(Narrator) It's hard to imagine weather being more than rain on our weekend or ice on our

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roads. But space weather can affect the
globe especially in the way we

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communicate and power our world. Space weather is the environmental conditions

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outside of our planet.
Originating from the massively energetic

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output of the Sun.

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(Sibeck) The solar wind is primarily comprised of protons and

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electrons. They're streaming outward from the Sun at speeds of up to a million

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miles an hour. And they are constantly
bombarding the Earth's magnetic field.

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(Narrator) Satellites have been launched to study solar wind, solar flares, coronal mass

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ejections and other behaviors of the Sun.

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These phenomena impact our atmosphere sometimes with devastating force.

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(Sibeck) So space weather includes power outages in high latitude power grids, includes

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destruction of spacecraft, includes
radiation that can harm astronauts in space.

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(Narrator) With any weather prediction is the goal. These missions will all add to the

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understanding of what it means to truly
live with a star.

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