16 September 2020
The Sun enters a new cycle and will reach a peak in 2025
... all of the planets, that makes it difficult for highly energetic radiation to infiltrate. But when the Sun is at a solar minimum, it's ordered and relaxed magnetic field weakens at the poles allowing the cosmic rays to penetrate through. Over...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... and analysed the sunspots of solar cycle 20, noted a precipitous drop in their number. Solar minimum was approaching but for several... hours. The towering trianglular shape of the McMath-Pierce solar telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona, USA. Hints of ...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... follows a well-known but not easily understood 11 year cycle that moves from solar minimum to solar maximum. The latest peak in the cycle was reached during the autumn season of 2013. The amount of ...
10 May 2021
Sun's biggest outburst this cycle is sending solar storms to Earth and Mars
... per second (8.2 million km/h). The Sun is currently in cycle 25. It left cycle 24 in September 2020 after it was declared that solar minimum had been reached in December 2019. Scientists expect that the Sun’s activity in the latest cycle will...
20 September 2021
Best time for a human Mars mission? During a solar maximum, new study says
...). Conversely, cosmic ray activity is most enhanced during solar minimum and lowest during solar maximum. This, say Dobynde and team, is a good thing because when the fluxes in solar particles are high they can help deflect harmful...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... radiation is deflected by the increased strength of the solar wind. The exact opposite effect is seen at solar minimum activity when SPE are less likely and GCR flux through the solar system is greater. The Van Allen belts consist...
