solar storms
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Map Shows Where The U.S. Power Grid Would Be Hit Worst By A Solar Storm
A new map shows just how vulnerable some parts of the United States’ power grid might be to the impacts of a strong solar storm.
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Traces Of Giant, 2,700-Year-Old Solar Storm Detected In Greenland Ice
Evidence of an unusually strong solar storm that hit Earth in 660 BCE has been detected in Greenland ice cores—a finding which shows we still have lots to learn about these disruptive events.
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Proposed Trump Budget Would Kill Program That Monitors Debilitating Solar Storms
The idea that a huge solar storm could wreak havoc here on Earth isn’t just a sci-fi plot, it’s a situation that countries and power grids around the world actively prepare for. But the Trump administration’s latest 2017 budget proposal would completely eliminate the program that keeps the continental US under 24/7 protection from this…
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An ‘Extreme’ Solar Flare Is Blasting Its Way To Our Planet
There has been a giant magnetic explosion on the sun. A solar flare that scientists have classified as “extreme” is blasting its way towards our planet and could hit as early as today.