New Satellite Provides Weather Forecasts For The Final Frontier
"Every morning in a government office building in Boulder, Colo., about a dozen
people type a code into a door and line up against a wall on the other side. There are a couple of guys in military uniform, and some scientists in Hawaiian shirts. They work at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and they're here for a daily space weather forecast."
"'Good morning, everyone,' says Jeff Stankiewicz, one of 11 forecasters who rotate around the clock. He tells the group about a pair of sunspots he's keeping an eye on. 'We have not seen any significant flare activity out of either of them over the last 24 hours,' he says, before moving on to wind speeds and coronal holes."
It may come as a surprise that there's weather in space, but there is, and it's happening pretty much all the time.