time to get outside fellas

[notAFanB]

so any of you guys be able to catch this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3242353.stm


not a chance where I'm at. you guys?

 

[RussSchultz]

I'm way too far south.

 

[Simon F]

I wonder how the guys in the ISS are getting on.

No doubt they'll be able to close their eyes and watch the paths particles take through their eyeballs!

 

[RussSchultz]

I believe the orbit of the ISS is within the magnetosphere, so they are afforded quite a bit of protection from an ion storm.

Here's a interesting post on the topic (from 2001).
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/0105/msg00105.html

Ahh, nostalgia. I remember the 'phantom torso', and exactly how bad of a project that thing was. I'm amazed they got any real science from it at all. Ok, that was a little harsh, the offline science is probably pretty reliable, but the real-time data collection system is a different topic all together. None of the engineers I knew wanted to work on that project.

 

[Humus]

If it just wouldn't be so damn cloudy over here ...

 

[Neeyik]

I wonder how the guys in the ISS are getting on.

No doubt they'll be able to close their eyes and watch the paths particles take through their eyeballs!

I believe the orbit of the ISS is within the magnetosphere, so they are afforded quite a bit of protection from an ion storm.

Only in certain areas - it is weaker in parts; weak enough for flashes to be detected onboard Mir:

http://physicsweb.org/article/news/7/4/12/1