RADIATION STORM IN PROGRESS: Solar protons accelerated by this morning's
M9-class solar flare are streaming past Earth. On the NOAA scale of radiation
storms, this one ranks S3, which means it could, e.g., cause isolated reboots
of computers onboard Earth-orbiting satellites and interfere with polar radio
communications. An example of satellite effects: The "snow" in this SOHO
coronagraph movie is caused by protons hitting the observatory's onboard camera
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