Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: Massive Solar Flare Misses Earth, but Are We Ready for the
Big One?
By Peter Pachal
http://www.
pcmag.
com/article2/0,2817,2386623,00.
asp
The Sun roared out a huge solar flare yesterday.
NASA caught it on...
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Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: Massive Solar Flare Misses Earth, but Are We Ready for the
Big One?
By Peter Pachal
http://www.
pcmag.
com/article2/0,2817,2386623,00.
asp
The Sun roared out a huge solar flare yesterday.
NASA caught it on film, ranking the spectacular blast as
a Class-M flare, just one spot below the the most disruptive type of flare, X.
Even so, NASA says it will
give Earth a mere “glancing blow,” and the National Weather Service expects it will cause only minor
disruptions to satellites and power grids.
It could have been much worse.
For centuries, solar flares have been responsible for a multitude of earthbound calamities, from blackouts to disrupted communications to strange lights in the sky.
In 1859, the
biggest flare on record hit, creating auroras worldwide and interrupting telegraph service for weeks.
Considering today’s connected world—and our reliance on satellites—a major solar storm could be
disastrous.
The sun is entering a particularl
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