India, June 30 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Indian astrophysicists have uncovered new insights into how large solar eruptions called Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) evolve thermally during their journey from the Sun to the Earth, and how this thermal state influences their potential to disturb Earth's magnetic environment that influence radio communications, aviation routes, and power grids.
ICMEs are massive blasts of magnetized plasma released from the Sun's outer atmosphere, which then travel through interplanetary space. When those ICMEs are directed towards us and encounter Earth's magnetic field, they can disturb it and cause geomagnetic storms. These storms have adverse effects on satellite operati...