Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The Power of Solar Activity

If you think that campfires are mesmerizing, watch this video and then wonder where four minutes went.

Other Cool Solar Activity Videos:
Coronal Mass Ejection in HD
Live Solar Flare
The Auroras video
Southern Lights from the ISS

This article and associated pictures show some of the effect of Solar Activity as we approach the next Solar Maximum. This Space Weather Dangers Article warns us of the damage that massive flares from the sun could cause. Read these. In a comment, share one effect that Solar Weather could cause and one thing you just found interesting.

17 comments:

  1. The thing it could cause is a gobal katrina. That would be really bad! It'd be really weird in Sioux Falls, I don't think we've ever had a hurricane...

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  2. They can mess with our electricity and create cool "art"

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  3. Flares might cause huge damge to the Earth and it could be the next global Katrina.

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  4. That if one came and hit the earth we would have to pay a lot of money to get society back up and running. Satilites could be wrecked and would have to go back up in space to fix them.

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  5. Solar Weather can cause radio communication problems as well as disruption of civil aviation.
    One thing I found interesting was an electromagnetic storm could cost the world economy $2,000 bn!

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  6. It couuld cause blackouts and mess up satelite communications. I found it interesting that it would take 2,000 billion dollars to fix something like that, i thought it wouldnt be that much

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  7. Solar flares could cause massive damage to Earth and it could be the next "global Katrina." It would cost the world $2,000bn.

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  8. It could heat up the Earth. Sun had the largest solar flare in 4 years.

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  9. It can cause interruption of radio communications and disrupt airplane flights near the poles.
    I found it interesting that the most severe solar storm on record was in 1859 and it took out the telegraph network.

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  10. It could be a global Katrina...

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  11. An effect of solar weather could be that an extreme solar storm could knock out communication satellites for multiple hours. A thing that I found interesting was that the most intense solar storm on record was in 1859.

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  12. 2 trillion $ to fix what will be afeacted on the earth

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  13. It could screw up radios and electricity and the cool thing was that you can see stuff cuz of the sun reacting with your eye fluids.

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  14. Cause interuption to radios. Destroy our connection with satellites for a while. The most interesting thing i found was the most severe solar stone was in 1859 and took out a telegraph network.

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  15. I thought that the size comparison of the sun flares and the earth.

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  16. The solar flare would interfere with our credit cards. It could cause more severe weather

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  17. The solar flares could cause a global Katrina!

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