Solar Attack

Solar Attack also called Solar Strike is a 2006 television film by CineTel Films and Lions Gate Entertainment, starring Mark Dacascos, Joanne Kelly and Louis Gossett Jr..

While a solar probe operated by the fictional Solar and Near Earth Laboratory SNEL is obtaining data, a large CME or solar flare destroys the probe. A manned spacecraft, Galileo, is caught in the CME and destroyed the tragedy is blamed on bad Russian equipment. CMEs knock satellites out of orbit, turning them into deadly meteors, and a CME hits New Zealand, destroying it and turning it into a huge mass of molten rock.After a multimillionaire, Lucas Foster Mark Dacascos, funds a program to fight global warming, it is discovered that the Earths atmosphere is nowpercent methane. Multiple CMEs are bound to hit the Earth, ignite the methane, and suffocate every living thing on Earth. Foster, who is also a scientist, tries to convince his skeptical colleagues. The government officials and fellow scientist Joanna Parks Joanne Kelly, his exwife, do not believe Foster either. ........

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