Earth to experience solar storm effects

COLOMBO (News 1st): Scientists revealed that the effects of solar storms, or coronal mass ejections (CMEs) will be experienced by earth since Friday (7) morning.

Two solar storms that are partly directed at Earth and were observed by NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) that orbits our star.

NASA has projected that the massive ejection of ionized gas called plasma will impact Earth by Friday (July 7). When the charged particles within CMEs strike the magnetic field of our planet, the magnetosphere, they can give rise to large disturbances called geomagnetic storms.