When the next severe solar storm slams into Earth’s magnetosphere, satellite operators, grid managers, and military planners will face a question they currently cannot answer: are the charged particles wreaking havoc on their systems coming from the Sun, or from Earth’s own atmosphere? The distinction sounds academic. It isn’t. The two scenarios produce different magnetic [...] The post Nobody can tell whether a geomagnetic storm is powered by the Sun or by Earth’s own atmosphere, and that distinction quietly determines which satellites survive and which power grids fail appeared first on Space Daily .
Nobody can tell whether a geomagnetic storm is powered by the Sun or by Earth’s own atmosphere, and that distinction quietly determines which satellites survive and which power grids fail
