The so-called solar storm, unintentionally refers toSunThe violent explosive activity on the Earth and the series of strong disturbances caused by it in the sun-terrestrial space. Solar eruption is a short-duration and huge-scale release of energy in the solar atmosphere. This is a terrifying ray, enough to affect everything living on earth.
In the early autumn of 1859, the beautiful aurora illuminates the entire world, from central and southern Mexico, to Queensland, Cuba, Hawaii, southern Japan, and China, etc., from extreme to low latitudes. The aurora over the Rocky Mountains in the United States was so bright that the birds began to chir and also awakened the gold miners. They thought it was dawn and began to prepare breakfast, and people in the northeastern United States could read newspapers under the aurora.
Back then, in the era when electric lights were not popular, the telegraph was the only way for people to quickly communicate with the world. Due to the impact of this solar storm, the telegraph systems in Europe and North America were malfunctioning, and some telegraph operators were even electrocuted, causing sparks to flash from the telegraph tower. What’s more, telegraph operators still continued to cut off the power. Can send and receive telegram information.
Amateur astronomer Richard Carrington discovered with his naked eyes the real cause of this strange event: a huge solar flare containing the energy of 10 billion atomic bombs. So he was called the first person to realize the connection between solar activity and the earth’s geomagnetic interference.
The event of that year occurred in the 10th solar cycle (1855–1867) and is still the strongest solar storm in history.
If you visit the earth again with this intensity, it would be a catastrophic disaster for mankind and technology today.
There are two main manifestations of solar storms. One is the flares that we have observed before, which are manifestations of the sudden increase in solar radiation. An explosion full of energy will blow through a large number of particles. If the earth is within the emission range of energy, it will hit the earth’s space and will seriously damage the earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere.
The second form is the coronal mass ejection, which is a burst of high-energy charged particles and plasma clouds from the sun. This power is stronger, and it will seriously damage satellites orbiting the earth. Think about the Global Positioning System (GPS). Nowadays, no matter whether it is a mobile phone, an airplane or a car, it cannot leave the GPS.
But the biggest concern is still the power grid, because power surges caused by solar particles may blow up giant transformers. Such transformers may take a long time to be replaced and repaired, especially if hundreds of them are destroyed at a time. If the power infrastructure in some places is highly overlapping and dependent, failures will easily cascade like dominoes. Imagine a power outage in a big city for a week, a month, or more, and the loss is incalculable.
There is a legend that in 2012, another solar storm like the Carrington storm wanted to go hit the earth, but it missed the orbit of the earth at that time. If the storm happened 9 days earlier, perhaps the Mayan predictions were true. Fulfilled. Do you believe?
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