Geo answer
Today’s Geo Quiz asked about the SDO, the NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. It hovers above the Earth in geosynchronous orbit orbit about 22-thousand miles It recently snapped photos of a solar storm that is expected to disturb the Earth’s geo magnetic shield. That usually creates aurora borealis (in the Northern Hemisphere). Anchor David Baron speaks with Doug Biesecker at the Space Weather Forecasting Center in Boulder, Colorado.
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