What is the difference between Earth and space weather and what is the greatest contributing force that creates space weather?
and Tom, Beers Street Middle School, Hazlet, NJ ANSWER: We can easily see and feel much of Earth weather. The temperature gets warmer and colder. clouds form and we may get rain or hail. Thunder and lightning can be very threatening if we are outside without proper shelter and protection. We are used to the local seasons. We rarely notice space weather directly with our senses. Most of its effects are high above the Earth, from a hundred kilometers or so all the way to the Sun and out past the edges of the solar system. I can only think of two common parts of space weather that are sensed directly by people. During a total eclipse of the Sun, we can see the visible corona, part of the solar weather. If we live far enough north or far enough south, we can see aurora (northern or southern lights) which is interaction between particles from solar weather and the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Just as all of the energy we use on Earth comes from the Sun, the Sun is the greatest contributing for
