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måndag, november 12, 2018

SPACE WEATHER IN WARTIME--

A SUNSPOT TRIGGERS NAVAL MINES:  
Researchers studying declassified Naval records have found evidence that a big sunspot may have caused dozens or perhaps even thousands of naval mines to explode off the coast of Vietnam in 1972. The solar storms of August '72 were already legendary at NASA. These new findings suggest that the event might have been even more potent than previously thought. Learn more on today's edition of Spaceweather.com
Above: Sunspot MR11976 photographed by astronomers at the Paris Observatory in August 1972.

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