Trestan @flare.observer · Nov 27 Sensationalist space weather article published during the August 1972 solar storms. It is not unlike the space weather clickbait of today...
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Sadly, that is unsurprising! The level of ignorance is rising and people come up with some pretty weird stuff! There was someone that would occasionally attend our science seminars who looked at base difference images/movies and thought the Sun had mountain ranges from which the wind swept down…
Here is the full text. It can also be found on page 88 of this 1972 NOAA technical memorandum: repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/18...