Its Halloween so time to share something scary! In this case, its scary how powerful our Sun is. In 2003 and the days leading up to Halloween of that year, the Sun was coming down from solar maximum, but was not yet done. The face of the Sun was covered in large sunspot groups.
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Then, on October 28, began a sequence of powerful solar flares that resulted in coronal mass ejections form the Sun that were Earth directed. The spikes in solar X-rays were among the most powerful detected, saturating the detectors of GOES satellites.
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Shortly after the flares, high speed particles from the Sun arrived at Earth and flooded the detectors of observing satellites. These appeared like a snowstorm in the resulting images.
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Astronauts on board the International Space Station had to seek shelter in the more shielded Russian parts of the station to protect themselves from the radiation. Power outages were cause on the earth and various satellites were damaged or put out of commission temporarily and auroras were seen as far south as Texas. As we approach another solar maximum, its good to keep in mind the monster that lies at the center of our own solar system.
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Great Halloween Solar Storms of 2003
by Jeff Bryant
Wolfram Community, STAFF PICKS, October 31, 2023
https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/3058698
by Jeff Bryant
Wolfram Community, STAFF PICKS, October 31, 2023
https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/3058698