SDO Data Site Under Repair, X-flare Erupts

[SDO]

The GSFC SDO website is having a disk replaced and should be back online tomorrow. Many thanks to Joe and Joe for installing the new drives. Repairs at the SDO ground station in New Mexico also delayed delivery of data to the SOCs in Palo Alto and Boulder. Both systems are repaired and delivery of the science data has resumed.

Of course, trouble with the data system means the Sun will do something interesting. An X1.1 flare erupted late yesterday (UT, 7 pm ET). Here is the EVE irradiances showing a peak in the top frame at 2300 UTC. The flare was in AR 11515, very close to the receding limb of the Sun, and in the southern hemisphere.


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[Star Tsar]

What NASA does not have hot swappable drives in their servers?

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

Sweet... If this X-flare will hit Earth there may be additional power blackouts. And what a coincidence with FBI's shutting down it's DNS Changer servers for removing "malicious" software.
Link: http://www.examiner.com/article/inte...ne-advises-fbi. It is scheduled for Monday 9th of July, just in time for arrival of the above mentioned X-class flare. Expected to reach Earth on 8th or 9th of July.
http://www.spaceweather.com/