When It Comes to Solar Storms, We Don t Even Know How Bad It Might GetJohn Matson
This week has seen one of the most dramatic solar storms in decades, leading toviews of auroras seen around the worldas charged particles from the sun interacted with Earth’s atmosphere. But the events weren’t only notable for the gorgeous colors seen in the sky — they are also a way ...
Vortices are a common phenomenon. After all, you see them in tubs and sinks all the time. Small dust devils sometimes form when winds flow over hot deserts, and wildfires can also produce climbing vortices of flame and ash called fire whirls. Scientists have even observed dust devils on Mar...
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The Significance of Solar Wind Energy Transfer Previously, NASA’sParker Solar Probefound thatthese switchbackswere common throughout the solar wind. Parker, which became the first craft toenter the Sun’s magnetic atmospherein 2021, allowed scientists to determine that switchbacks become more distinct...
Devastating floods are becoming more and more common around the world. The warming climate is leading to heavier rainfall, but could the way that cities are growing be making things worse? Could we design cities in a different way to reduce the risk of flooding? 毁灭性的洪水在世界各地变得越来...
While space weather ultimately originates on the sun, the term solar storm refers to occurrences on, or near, our own planet, when material tossed out by the sun reaches us. There are two distinct types of solar storm: Geomagnetic storms and solar radiation storms. A CME erupted on Jan....
Auroras are expected to be relatively common in the skies of exoplanets as well. But we'll have to get better looks at these faraway worlds to see their light shows directly. The history of the northern lights Though it was Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei who coined the name "aurora borea...
Perhaps the most common and well-known reason to pair solar and battery storage is to provide backup power during grid outages. Solar-only systems are typically shut off during grid outages to prevent the backflow of electricity from harming utility lineworkers and thus do not provide backup powe...
It was noted that moderate or strong geomagnetic storms occurred only when solar wind speed V was above ∼350 km/s. However, above this limit, the plots of Dst versus V showed a large scatter, and any value of V could be associated with any value of Dst in a wide range of a ...