Solar Storm – a Potential Threat to Humanity A solar storm refers to space weather involving solar activities like solar flares and coronal mass ejection. Although most solar storms may only have minor effect on the Earth, a particularly strong one like the 1859 Carrington Event is likely to cause damage of spacecraft and satellites, as well as radio and electricity blackout of large regions on the Earth. In the age that people’s lives are greatly dependent on electronic and telecommunication technologies
Did you know that the sun’s core can reach about 15 million degrees Celsius? This bright star has many significant happenings. These interesting occurrences include sunspots, solar winds, coronal mass ejections, and solar flares. Sunspots are cool, dark-colored regions of the photosphere related to a shifting magnetic field inside the sun. However, sunspots are only dark in our perspective. A sunspot removed from the bright background of the Sun would glow brightly. Solar wind is the radiation of
Scientists have known of hundreds of years that sunspot activity waxes and wanes over a cycle. In the 1970s scientists discovered that the sun periodically blasts electrified gases into space in huge outburst called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. This project asks the question: Do CMEs follow the Solar Sunspot Cycle? In this project, the independent variables consist of the sunspot and CME values over the years, the dependent variables consist of the years and amount of values observed, and the
Solar flares, huge explosions of gasses, gamma rays and ultra-violet rays. These massive flares that come from the solar atmosphere are what I will be analyzing and teaching you about in this essay. Solar flares have had a profound effect on life and resources on earth throughout the history of our planet. Nowadays we are aware of the causes of solar flares and the damage that solar flares are capable of. Throughout this essay we will look into what solar flares are and how solar flares affect life
happen. In the year 1929, Edwin Hubble made a revolutionary discovery. He learned that the universe is expanding. He saw that the galaxies were each moving away from us. Edwin knew that for one instance of time, almost 14 billion years ago, all of the mass of the universe was contained in a single spot. There had to have been a huge explosion that pushed all the matter away. This explosion is known as the Big Bang Theory. (www.science.nasa.gov) NASA is now monitoring the expansion of the universe in
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Simon Luu ESS 102 Writing Credit Synopsis of Writing Project Research Paper Synopsis In the year 3000, the planet Earth is a desolate wasteland. It has been a little over a half a century since the “big one” hit the Earth. The majority of the human race has been eliminated with only a few hundred remaining. The only ones who have survived barely made it on to the spaceship as the big one smashed the Earth. Marcus is one of the many survivors coping with solar winds and debris floating
also makes the growing season longer. I like this. Co2 is plant food, and it helps in droughts, as plants need less water. Now, moving on to the next subject, people seem to think that global warming is killing off polar bears, or that it is causing mass extinctions. First of all, there aren’t any extinctions, or any dying polar bears, at least because of global warming. When al gore told the world about the poor drowning polar bears, he talked about one time when a group of four bears drowned, after
Jake Reed Erika Harnett ESS 102 13 November 2015 Mars! It was cold. There were raging winds and subzero temperatures, the result of a pitifully underdeveloped Martian atmosphere. Cutting gusts and the anoxic air made the surface impossible to survive in unassisted. The atmosphere expressed only 600 pascals [1], less than a percent of what was measured on Earth at the time. There was only trace amounts of oxygen in the air, and the temperature was nearly always sub-zero [2.] Most days would be lucky
Introduction: Astronomy is derived from infancy of human culture--- ancient age. People pay more attention to observe sun, moon and star by positioning their location and making calendar in order to indicate direction, ensure time and season. In some point of view, astronomy is one of the most old subjects in Neurology. Sun, as one of the most vital origins that providing light and ultraviolet rays, is actually an very huge galaxy, its cycle was found by a amateur astronomer, Henry Schwab. In 2010
Do you expect the world to end? Will humans leave the world to another life form soon? These questions have plagued man since his inception on this planet. Humans have, in every culture, have made predictions of how and when the world will end. We have done this either through religion or just average men or women who say they have the sight to see the future. Do we consider religion false and seers charlatans? We must first look at the worlds myths about the end of the world, or as is called from
In 1962, at 11:00:09 pm local time on July 8th, the United States detonated a thermonuclear warhead riding atop a Thor missile at 400 km above Johnston Island at a distance of 826 miles from Honolulu, Hawaii. That night was one that many on the Hawaii Islands would never forget (Berkhouse, 1962). Operation , as the test was code named by the U.S. military, caused the first damage in the United States from an electromagnetic pulse created by a nuclear detonation. Though the damage was not intended
PROLOGUE 2044. A troubled world economy and changes in the geopolitical landscape of the world have left the United States and China with the only fully functional space programs. Tensions between the two countries are high, and many believe that a second Cold War is beginning. February. An American observatory discovers a large near-Earth asteroid, or NEA. It is given the provisional designation 2044CF. Initial data suggests that the object has a three percent chance of impacting Earth. NASA
Since the discovery of powered flight, man has endeavored to test the limits of traveling higher, faster and longer. With the advent of rocket technology in the early 20th century, “higher” came to mean orbiting the Earth, eventually culminating in NASA’s Apollo 11 mission to the moon. “Faster” meant setting record after record of speeds in excess of the sound barrier, with the very same Apollo missions reaching velocities of almost 25,000 miles per hour. “Longer” can currently be summated by the