They manage to do this using the data collected by
the fleet of spacecraft that NASA has in orbit around the Sun laboratory
analysts provide information to a group of supercomputers which is responsible
for processing. A few hours after an eruption of great magnitude, computers
produce a three dimensional film shows where the storm goes and what planets
and spacecraft will be hit, also predicts the film will occur when each
impact. This type of prediction of interplanetary weather is unprecedented
in the short history of weather forecasting in space."This is an exciting time to work as a
forecaster of space weather," says Ante Pulkkinen, who is a researcher at
the Laboratory of Space Weather. "The emergence of models of space
weather based on serious physical is giving us the ability to predict if and
when a major event."
