Sentences with phrase «solar outbursts»

Consequently, it's still possible we'll experience a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), a major solar outburst that often results in spectacular displays of the northern lights.

Powerful solar outbursts compress the field and force electrons to cascade down into the ionosphere, a sparse layer of the atmosphere hundreds of kilometers high.

It was a discovery of immense practical significance: If Fischbach were correct, he speculated, he might have found a way to monitor solar storms day or night, and predict a violent solar outburst a day - and - a-half before it became visible.

Viereck's team is responsible for forecasts of geomagnetic storms caused by solar outbursts.

Re-creating conditions on the sun's surface inside a laboratory plasma chamber, scientists find surprising insights into solar outbursts

However, the images were transmitted to Earth just once a day and since solar outbursts can travel all the way to Earth in less than a day, some clouds were missed.

Physicists are also eager to observe solar outbursts with IRIS.

Future satellite transmitters may take advantage of the effect, which had been predicted theoretically, to help clear the belt of charged particles from intense solar outbursts or nuclear explosions in space that could threaten satellites.

Twisting plasma flows beneath the sun's surface provide a way to predict potentially dangerous solar outbursts

Knowing when such storms are coming helps protect astronauts as well as ground communications: Physicists estimate that a 1989 solar outburst released enough radiation to expose astronauts on the Mir space station to their yearly dose in just a few hours.

Within a few years, automated sunspot predictions could allow engineers to protect the grid and place satellites in safe mode ahead of a major solar outburst.

«The Earth's magnetic field protects life on the surface from the full impact of these solar outbursts,» says John Foster, associate director of MIT's Haystack Observatory.

Solar outbursts have effects on everything from satellites to the electrical grid here on Earth and predicting such storms is a continuing effort for NASA, NOAA and other government and scientific groups.

THE sun is gearing up for a peak in activity at a time when technology makes our planet more vulnerable to solar outbursts than ever before.

Particles, including electrons, in the solar outburst can penetrate the ionosphere, following Earth's magnetic field lines, which converge at the poles.

Light, x-rays and the CMEs themselves can reach the atmosphere anywhere between a few minutes and a few days after a solar outburst.

A solar outburst over the weekend delivered lovely aurorae Monday, setting the night sky aglow over mid-latitude regions rarely treated to such sights.

But solar outbursts can erode the cloud.