Ultraviolet radiation swept Earth’s upper atmosphere on February 18, following an M1.9 class flare the preceding day. The flare came from new sunspot AR1675; it was the most intense flare of 2013 so far, although it did not produce a cornoal mass ejection.
Here it is, in a range of wavelengths:
















































































































![A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).](http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fluid-dynamics-trajectory-analysis-50x50.jpg)



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