“It gives us one to two hours’ warning, with 60 to 80 percent accuracy, that a flare is coming,” Mason says. “If we want to be able to predict solar storms earlier, then we have to predict ...

and emphasized the importance of SDO in our solar early warning system. In a lot of ways, SDO has its roots in the earlier Solar and Heliospheric Observer, or SOHO, the wildly successful ESA solar ...