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Report Copyright Violation | NEW SOLAR EXTREME-ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIANCE OBSERVATIONS DURING FLARES [ link to www.theregister.co.uk] Solar flares are massive releases of radiation associated with sunspots. If they hit Earth, they can deliver large amounts of energy into the atmosphere: they can also damage or destroy satellites or probe craft in space, particularly where these are beyond some or all of the protective magnetic fields of Earth.
According to a statement issued yesterday by scientists investigating results from the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), such flares carry much more energy than had been thought. The statement says:
Scientists have observed that radiation from solar flares sometimes continues for up to five hours beyond the initial minutes of the main phase of a solar flare occurrence. The new data also show that the total energy from this extended phase of the solar flare peak sometimes has more energy than that of the initial event.
On Nov 3, 2010, a solar flare was observed by SDO. If scientists had only measured the effects of the solar flare as it initially happened, the information would have resulted in underestimating the amount of energy shooting into Earth's atmosphere by 70 per cent. The new capability with SDO observations will provide a much more accurate estimation of the total energy input into Earth's environment.[See article at above link] Source: [ link to iopscience.iop.org] Love is an exercise in duality to bring you to the understanding of unity. (c) Sunpar 11-22-2011 |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: NEW SOLAR EXTREME-ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIANCE OBSERVATIONS DURING FLARES [ link to www.swpc.noaa.gov] 3 Day > GOES Xray FluxShown are two X-Flare Class flares in the past two days. Love is an exercise in duality to bring you to the understanding of unity. (c) Sunpar 11-22-2011 |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: NEW SOLAR EXTREME-ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIANCE OBSERVATIONS DURING FLARES Mini ice age!! FTW  |
