ocr: SUN-EARTH CONNECTION The ozone layer protects US from the harmtul UV radiation and the Earth's magnetosphere prevents charged particles from reaching US, thus making life possible on Earth. When gusts of those charg- ed particles reach the Earth, they will disturb the magnetosphere - the phenomenon is called a geomagnetic storm - and will be ejected towards the magnetic poles. The event can create shim- mering curtains of coloured light, northern lights or auroras, which are more or less harmless. Other effects are much more serious. Higher up in the atmosphere ozone prevents harmful ulfravio- ...
