Hi everyone! This post I want to talk about a matter which I heard and readed a couple of weeks ago on the TV newscast and Web portals, but that ocurred specifically on Monday February 17th . This happening which my attention was focused on, it was the biggest solar storm came out by NASA through its non-manned probe SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) of 2013. The solar storms are explosions on the surface of the Sun due to temperature and pressure decrease of its volumes of fizzy mass in the regions of solar stains. That happen all the time, all the years in an endless solar cicle. As the Sun releases too much energy in this process, such big balance of solar energy has an affect on the magnetic field of the Earth, because the interaction between them, leading to the "Earth eletromagnetic storm" (if we may so call that event). So, that "Earth storm" increases the CA (electric current) of electrical appliances, in a way, "fryting" these objects, since, they cannot have enough strenght to keep working accordingly. It's known to each eleven years the Sun undergoes periods of ups and downs in its storm activity. Both 2012 and 2013 are located inside a period of high solar activity, what means we are going to have a year of solar eruptions crossing the Earth. The quoted storm was classified by the scientists of NASA in the level "M" ( M referring to the idea of "medium") because of its shining in X-rays. "M" solar storms affect the poles of the Earth, that's why can occur quick interruptions on the radio broadcastings. For instance, who was listening to radio in Europe and North America that time, can has suffered this consequence, owing to the high atmosphere ionization's wave caused by the ultra violet radiation of solar storm. The "maximum solar " (like the scientists call the "ups" in solar activity) is particulary bothering the air routes which come by Asia bound to North America (and contariwise) across North Pole, causing reformulations in aircraft's flying plans for this region, just we remember that all solar energy in an eruption concentrates on in poles, therefrom the reason for that result or consequence.
The solar storm's forecast is conducted by Solar Dynamics Laboratory, which sends for NASA's scientists images of the Sun in real time. Such forecast can has an error margin of approximately thirteen minutes, on the other hand,this forethought system is not able to gauge the size and intensity of the eruption. So, left us await the solar wave touch one more NASA's equipment called "Advanced Composition Explorer" that measures the intensity of a solar tempest and sounds alerts to the scientists and soon for us, laymen.
To finish my post for now, I hope you get more informed about the facts that happen in the Universe out there, and can reflect in our own life in the future. Bye! See you!!
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