which i guess makes bart de pontieu a space weatherman. three years ago which looks at small parts of the sun in great detail. his job is to use what he sees to create solar computer simulations, which may unlock its mysteries, and may help us to understand where the particular coronal mass ejections will affect us on earth. you can see in this movie when that eruption happens. you see all that snow on the image. those are the energetic particles of the sun that hit our detectors, our ccds and they leave charges in there. these energetic particles in fact, notjust the ccds, but they can impact the computers on—board satellites, and that means the satellites can flip a bit essentially and screw up the whole operation of the satellite. satellites have gotten lost as a result. and so when these things happen, you can go in safe mode. if you can predict them properly, you can go in safe mode. many of these storms can be geo—affective and changing the environment around earth, they can lead to power grids getting overloaded and transformers blo