Yihua Zheng and Antti Pulkkinen, NASA (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Yihua Zheng and Antti Pulkkinen, NASA

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Chief space weather forecasters Yihua Zheng and Antti Pulkkinen are helping to implement a computer technique -- ensemble forecasting -- that will improve NASA’s ability to predict the path and impact of severe solar storms, which can disrupt power grids on Earth, knock out satellites, and threaten the health and safety of astronauts.

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Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn

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