Sentences with phrase «solar flare activity»

the co2 levels lag historical temps by almost a thousand years, but the solar flare activity follows temps precisely.

The theory suggests that during times of low solar output the reduced solar wind allows more cosmic rays to excite the outer atmosphere which then enhance any solar flare activity to a state whereby aurora can be visible at mid latitudes.

The Sun goes through cycles of solar flare activity about every 11 years.

Analyzing measurements of high - altitude airglow gathered by a satellite in 1992 and 1996 (years of maximum and minimum solar flare activity, respectively), the scientists found 11 cases where airglow, in theory, brightened enough to be seen by observers on the ground, they report in Geophysical Research Letters.

Not exact matches

In the past three years, the Sun has gone through periods of higher and lower solar activity, and Mars also has experienced solar storms, solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

Every 11 years or so, the sun's magnetic activity peaks and then troughs, resulting in relatively high and then low numbers of dark spots and flares on the solar surface.

Miami — In rough terms, the sun's activity ebbs and flows in an 11 - year cycle, with flares, coronal mass ejections, and other energetic phenomena peaking at what is called solar maximum and bottoming out at solar minimum.

Our technologies, which are increasingly dependent on electrical components and on satellites (GPS, telephony, etc), are thus ever more sensitive to solar activity, while such flares can even put astronauts» lives in danger.

MIAMI — In very rough terms, the sun's activity ebbs and flows in an 11 - year cycle, with flares, coronal mass ejections and other energetic phenomena peaking at what is called solar maximum and bottoming out at solar minimum.

Explosive solar activity, like flares and coronal mass ejections, blasts highly energetic, electrically charged particles into space.

The main objectives of the mission include obtaining new data on solar activity to help to better forecast space - weather events like solar flares which can directly impact Earth and orbiting satellites, trace the flow of energy from the Sun, better understand how the Sun's outer atmosphere is heated, and explore the physical mechanisms which accelerate the solar wind.

While magnetism is a tiny portion of the Sun's total energy output, it causes CMEs, sunspots, flares, filaments, and a range of other activities and how they are expressed as space weather across the solar system.

The coronal magnetic reconnection hypothesis can explain the observations via the notion that superflares and solar flares share the same origin and that the two activity distributions therefore are within similar range, but that superflares mainly take place on stars with activity levels larger than the Sun.

This spacecraft was designed to observe gamma rays, X-rays and UV radiation from solar flares during a time of high solar activity.

The sun goes through cycles of more and less activity, and flares releasing the particles are both more likely and more intense during a solar maximum.

Rottman and colleagues saw greater reductions in the Sun's energy coming Earthward during a stretch of intense solar activity last October, when several huge sunspots generated a record - breaking string of solar flares.

Fluctuations in solar activity, including magnetic field - powered sunspots and solar flares, have been linked to past changes in climate, including, controversially, the Little Ice Age.