Over the past seven years, NASA Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum has sponsored and coordinated education and public outreach events to highlight NASA Sun-Earth Connection research and discoveries. This year’s main event will be on March 20, 2008. Sun-Earth Day is comprised of a series of programs and events that occur throughout the year culminating with a celebration on or near the Spring Equinox. Various events will prepare the audiences to watch a total solar eclipse on August 1, 2008 via a live webcast from China.

Each year the Sun-Earth Day program wraps a fresh new thematic approach around NASAs Sun-Earth Connection science, missions and cutting edge research. This year’s(2008) theme is Space Weather Around the World

2008 ISSUES
* #61: What causes and Auroral Storm?
* #60: Where does the Sun’s magnetic field come from?
* #59: Where did all the Neutrinos go?
* #58: Why is the Sun’s Corona Hot?

1. Solar flares can sometimes heat the solar surface to temperatures of 80 million F – far hotter that the sun’s core!
2. The fastest coronal mass ejection was recorded on August 4, 1972 and traveled from the sun to earth in 14.6 hours – a speed of nearly 10 million kilometers per hour!
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