On February 12 , a mildsolar solar flare eruptedfrom the Earth’s surface of the Sun with an link up coronal mass ejection , which throw a immense amount of charged particles into the solar malarkey . Those particle are presently hitting our magnetosphere and they might lead to a pretty impressive Northern Lights show .
The Space Weather Prediction Center , which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , has issueda warningthat the geomagnetic K - indicator will be four ( out of nine ) . The storm is nothing to worry about , at the most , there will be some faint index gridiron fluctuation . And if you ’re at latitudes beyond 65 degrees then you should also seethe aurorae . While the spectacle there will be impressive , it wo n’t be as enticing as last September ’s case .
Although both this solar solar flare and the geomagnetic storm are in the soft category , the event has had people spill the beans about what ’s in lieu to protect infrastructures from more powerful events in the hereafter . While these storm give rise to the northerly lights , one of the most sublime spectacle on Earth , they are also a scourge to electronic equipment and our modern life style .
Geomagnetic storm , also known as solar storms , are temporary disturbances of the Earth ’s magnetosphere due to vivid solar activity . Electrically charge particle from the Sun are currently streaming through the solar system , this is what we called the solar wind . But once in a while , a coronal mass expulsion bechance , and a high - stop number wave of plasma gets total to the usual amount . A geomagnetic violent storm happens if the wave of blood plasma hits the Earth ’s magnetic playing area .
We can only theorize what a powerful storm would do to our technical school . The most powerful solar tempest on record , the Carrington issue , was creditworthy for aurorae from the poles to the tropic as well as generating fires in telegraph stations across the US and Europe in 1859 . It was estimated that the cost of a solar storm of such magnitude today could be in the club of one million million of dollars for theUS alone .
This mild event tells us that prefigure these phenomena is not niggling . The Sun needs to be keep under ceaseless observation and some investigator believe we might bemissingsome muscular storm already .
