The same sunspots that disrupted the television signals led to enormous solar flares — powerful bursts of radiation from the Sun — Aug. 4-7 that year. Between the Apollo 16 and 17 missions, the solar eruptions were a near miss for lunar explorers. Had they been in orbit or on the Moon’s surface, they would have sustained dangerous levels of solar radiation sparked by the eruptions. Today, the Apollo-era flares serve as a reminder of the threat of radiation exposure for technology and astronauts in space. Understanding and predicting solar eruptions is crucial for safe space exploration.
Almost 50 years since those 1972 storms, the data, technology and resources available to NASA have improved, enabling advancements towards space weather forecasts and astronaut protection — key to NASA’s Artemis program to return astronauts to the Moon.
Read more on NASA.gov.",
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The Space Weather Media Viewer is an application built to support Education and Public Outreach activities of NASA. Many of the images that appear in this viewer are \"near-real time\" and come from a variety of NASA Missions. || ", "release_date": "2010-09-22T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2019-06-18T11:06:10-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 490058, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010600/a010654/Heliopause_Segment_1_SVS.00777_print.jpg", "filename": "Heliopause_Segment_1_SVS.00777_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "What is the heliopause?For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 10432, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10432/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Apollo Mission Lunar Surface Footage", "description": "All Apollo footage is part of the media collection at Johnson Space Center in Houston. 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