[American Constitutionalist]

If the 3d cam satellite is just sending us this information, would it be a good guess that the solar flare activity is past the horizon now. ?

[agere_contra]

If the 3d cam satellite is just sending us this information, would it be a good guess that the solar flare activity is past the horizon now. ?

Good question. The answer is "maybe". If there were indeed some kind of world-ending flare activity in the offing, one way to think of it would be as a flamethrower nozzle pointed at 90 degrees out of the Sun.

If the flamethrower is currently 'on' then we could indeed see it. Oh heavens yes. But we might just be watching, so-to-speak, the pilot light on Ripley's flamer, and the whole gun is just swinging lazily into position...