Sentences with phrase «triggered magnetic storms»
This large solar flare, produced by an active region of the sun (AR9077), triggered magnetic storms and knocked out satellites when it created a solar storm on July 14, 2000.
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The magnetic field that creates the sunspots can also trigger large, explosive discharges of plasma, causing solar storms to hit the Earth.
The satellites observed the pulses in the wake of an October 2003 magnetic storm triggered by a coronal mass ejection — a plasma spitball shot out by the sun — that slammed into Earth's magnetosphere.
Eruptions on the Sun's surface, also called solar storms, trigger geomagnetic storms and this usually causes disturbances globally in the ionosphere and the magnetosphere, which is the region of the atmosphere governed primarily by Earth's magnetic field.
THE SUN appears to have started its next cycle of sunspots two years ahead of schedule, heralding a period of solar magnetic storms that could trigger radio interference and auroras in the night sky.
This mass of plasma travels at millions of miles per hour and, upon colliding with a planet's magnetic field, can trigger a geomagnetic storm, during which particles trapped in a planet's atmosphere are released.