May 9th, 2009 by
Although its peak is still four years away, a new active period of Earth-threatening solar storms will be the weakest since 1928, predicts an international panel of experts led by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center and funded by NASA. Despite the prediction, Earth is still vulnerable to a severe solar storm.
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January 6th, 2009 by
A NASA-funded study describes how extreme solar eruptions could have severe consequences for communications, power grids and other technology on Earth.
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March 4th, 2008 by
Sometime between the end of 2008 and the beginning 2009, NASA will launch the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to examine how the Sun builds up and explosively releases magnetic energy, which powers severe space weather.
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August 25th, 2007 by
Observations of solar flares by spacecraft at Mars, Venus and the Earth show that eruptions on the far side of the Sun may affect space weather back on Earth.
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July 11th, 2007 by
Settling a longstanding scientific debate, Los Alamos scientists have demonstrated conclusively how electromagnetic waves accelerate ordinary electrons in the belts of radiation outside Earth’s atmosphere to a state where they become “killer electrons,” particles that are hazardous to satellites, spacecraft, and astronauts.
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