ARLA/CLUSTER: Clima espacial em tempo de guerra - uma mancha solar desencadeou a activação de minas navais em 1972 no Vietname

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Space weather in wartime - a sunspot triggers naval mines

Researchers studying declassified Naval records have found evidence
that a big sunspot may have caused dozens or perhaps even thousands of
naval mines to explode off the coast of Vietnam in 1972.

The solar storms of August '72 were already legendary at NASA. These
new findings suggest that the event might have been even more potent
than previously thought.

Learn more on today's edition of Spaceweather.com