Surf’s Up! Solar Wave Clocked At 4.5 Million Miles Per Hour

[/caption] Time to grab your silver surfboards because scientists utilizing the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on-board NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), have picked up on quasi-periodic waves in the low solar corona that travel at speeds as high as 2,000 kilometers per second (4.5 million miles per hour). Just think… We could ride that … Continue reading Surf’s Up! Solar Wave Clocked At 4.5 Million Miles Per Hour