Photo: Solar Storm Causes X-Ray Aurora, On April 7, the SOHO spacecraft spotted a Solar Storm ejecting a cloud of energetic particles toward planet Earth. The plasma cloud’s center missed Earth, but high energy particles swept up by Earth’s magnetosphere still created a geomagnetic storm! Read more, from NASA.
Stronger Solar Storms Predicted; Blackouts May Result, John Roach for National Geographic News
“This prediction of an active solar cycle suggests we are potentially looking at more communication and navigation disruptions, more satellite failures, possible disruption of electric grids and blackouts, more dangerous conditions for astronauts—all these things,” Behnke said during the briefing.
New Model Predicts Severe Solar Activity
by
curiouscat
Tags:
Science,
Students
Permalink to:
Solar Storms
Trackback: http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2006/03/07/solar-storms/trackback/
April 16th, 2006 at 8:56 am
[...] “It shows hot plasma escaping into space as a fiery prominence breaks free from magnetic confinement a hundred thousand kilometers above the Sun. These awesome events bear watching as they can affect communications and power systems over 100 million kilometers away on Planet Earth.” [...]
April 6th, 2007 at 8:28 am
“Dale E. Gary, chairman of the physics department of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, said the burst produced 10 times more radio noise than any burst previously recorded.”