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Weather isn’t just limited to planets and moons with an atmosphere. Space itself can be host to weather, such as solar winds, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and gamma ray bursts—and all are just as important as terrestrial weather. And potentially more dangerous. A tornado or hurricane could level a city, but a gamma ray burst could mean that the entire solar system needs to be dry cleaned.
And so, as we see above, we have the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite, taken into space on February 11, 2015, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Although the primary purpose of DSCOVR is to monitor space weather and climate, it still finds time to keep an eye on Earth as well.
So it is with Quub. We don’t monitor solar system weather like the Sun’s coronal mass ejections, but we do watch over our home. Not much could stop a CME, but we can certainly help to shift the course of weather on Earth.
