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Solar storms that caused pretty auroras can create havoc with technology — here’s how

The Conversation 14 May 2024
The disturbances in the ionosphere were compounded by a series of bright eruptions called “flares” on the Sun that poured high energy radiation across the Earth’s sunlit face.
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Strongest geomagnetic storm in two decades erupts with limited impact on public

People Daily 13 May 2024
Hot plasma injection can cause surface charging of satellite, and high energy electron bursts can cause deep charging harm to satellite. Ionospheric storms could affect things like short-wave communications and satellite navigation ... (Web editor ... .
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First ‘severe geomagnetic storm watch' issued in nearly 20 years. Here's what it could mean

NBC Bay Area 10 May 2024
Particularly strong storms can impact the Earth’s ionosphere, adding energy in the form of heat that can “increase the density and distribution of density in the upper atmosphere, causing extra drag ...
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Two extremely powerful solar flares from Sun hit Earth’s Pacific region

Interesting Engineering 03 May 2024
The sudden outburst of electromagnetic energy travels at the speed of light therefore any effect upon the sunlit side of Earth’s exposed outer atmosphere occurs at the same time the event is observed.
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Beirut residents face cancer risk amid city’s diesel-filled smog

Interesting Engineering 22 Apr 2024
Tons of Dead Fish Engulf Lebanese Village in a Pungent Odor The Beirut Explosion’s Atmospheric Wave Shook the Ionosphere. Physicist Estimates the Energy of the ...
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Near-perfect weather Monday for eclipse in OBX; NASA launching rockets that may be visible

Island Free Press 08 Apr 2024
The Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) sounding rockets launching from Wallops Island will carry payloads to study the disturbances in the ionosphere created when the Moon eclipses the Sun.
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Total solar eclipse: A 4-minute window into the universe's secrets

RNZ 07 Apr 2024
By Georgina Rannard, BBC science reporter ... Energy from the Sun charges a region in the upper atmosphere called the ionosphere, which helps radio transmissions whizz around the planet. But when the Moon blocks the Sun, the ionosphere is affected ... ....
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NASA To Send Rockets To Study The Eclipse’s Effect On The Ionosphere

IFL Science 01 Apr 2024
Starting 90 kilometers (55 miles) up, the ionosphere is well above the highest clouds, so it‘s usually exposed to sunlight throughout the day ... The ionosphere during an ordinary day/night cycle ... At night they recombine, so the ionosphere declines.
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NASA to launch sounding rockets into moon's shadow during solar eclipse

Phys Dot Org 27 Mar 2024
The Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) sounding rockets will launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to study the disturbances in the ionosphere created when the moon eclipses the sun.
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Strong solar flares might cause temporary radio blackouts: Report

Anadolu Agency 25 Mar 2024
This burst of energy increases X-ray and ultraviolet radiation, which can mess with the layers of the Earth's atmosphere, particularly the ionosphere, on the side facing the Sun, the report said.
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The Sun Just Launched Three Huge Solar Flares in 24 Hours.

Slashdot 23 Feb 2024
CMEs are slower shock waves of magnetic energy from the sun ... Radio waves sent from devices below it then impact that extra-ionized layer and lose energy, and aren't able to be bent by ions at the top of the ionosphere.
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Possible atmospheric destruction of a potentially habitable exoplanet

Phys Dot Org 21 Feb 2024
Using reasonable estimates for the width of Trappist 1e's ionosphere, its conductance and the magnitude of the changing magnetic field, their results show that the Joule heating energy flux in the ...
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Decade-long data from Antarctic station released

Hindustan Times 27 Dec 2023
The ionosphere at polar regions is highly dynamic and acts as a major energy sink for space weather events, and related processes in magnetosphere-ionosphere systems as the magnetic field lines are vertical in this region.
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Weather from outer space could make trains crash into each other, scientists warn

Metro UK 11 Dec 2023
Within this energy blast are high-energy protons – one of the three main particles that make up an atom, alongside neutrons and electrons ... the bottom of the ionosphere and interfere with radio waves.
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When is an aurora not an aurora? Phenomena called 'Steve' and 'picket fence' are masquerading ...

Phys Dot Org 09 Dec 2023
If correct, this unusual process has implications for how physicists understand energy flow between Earth's magnetosphere, which surrounds and protects Earth from the solar wind, and the ionosphere at the edge of space.
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