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Northern Lights in Mexico? Low-latitudes may be more vulnerable than expected to geomagnetic storms


Mother's Day 2024 heralded Mexico's most powerful geomagnetic storm in two decades, which knocked the country's atomic clocks out of sync and rattled its energy grid.

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