August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
...nations and NASA’s Space Radiation Analysis Group take solar storm warnings very seriously. Space weather efforts by the... exploration of the full range of space weather storms and their potential impacts improving critical infrastructure security ...
July 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
..., seven days a week when the unit was not being deployed to save the Earth from a massive solar storm, modulating solar radiation to reduce climate change and overheating of the atmosphere? It is more than a little thrilling to think of an invention...
June 2014
In thrall to a star: understanding the Sun will help us understand our own climate and environment
... future behaviour, enhancing our knowledge of climate change and our ability to forecast and predict the impact of solar storms at the Earth. Further reading The Sun, Alexander D., 2009, Series: Greenwood Guides to the Universe, Greenwood Publishing...
25 November 2020
Solar astronomers "listening" to the Sun can now predict future sunspots
... that can help mitigate the effects of powerful solar storms that have the potential to disrupt satellites in orbit... the starting point for solar storms, especially if the sunspot is large and complicated. Solar storms involve the sudden releases...
26 January 2018
NASA launches GOLD to study Earth-space boundary
... one another constantly, and when merged with solar activity, coalesce to affect communications and navigation around...disruptions. Similarly, when the Sun’s surface erupts in solar flares, flurries of energised particles make their way towards ...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
The concept of a ‘Moon village’, introduced in 2016 by Director General of the European Space Agency, Jan Wörner, isn’t an active project or a space programme in the traditional sense. Rather, it represents an intention or vision for spaceflight and...
