Some of the leading solar scientists gathered in Washington DC, USA, Tuesday (8 / 6) then. They discussed the best ways to protect satellites from Earth and vital systems due to the possibility of the worst solar storm. Solar activity will be increasingly active and will result in negative effects for the Earth.
Solar storm occurs when some point the sun burst and spew splattered particles that can be damaging. This activity takes place in cycles of 11 years.
"The sun has got up from bed length. And in the next few years we will see solar activity in the higher level," said the head of NASA's Heliophysics Division, Richard Fisher, like the Christian Science Monitor published pages.
"At the same time, technological society is developing a new sensitivity to face the storm the sun."
Society in the 21st century, he said, relies heavily on high-tech systems in daily life due to storm-prone in the sun.
GPS navigation, air travel, financial services and emergency radio communications could all die suddenly by solar activity.
Economic damage caused by solar storms are expected twenty times larger than Hurricane Katrina - as a warning, issued the National Academy of Sciences in a report in 2008.
Fortunately, a lot of damage can be overcome if it knows when a storm is coming. That is why understanding of solar weather and a better ability to provide early warning, it is very important.
Placing the satellite in 'safe mode' and release the transformer in order to protect the electronics from damaging power surge.
"Space weather forecast was still in development, but we are making progress rapidly," said Thomas Bogdan, director of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA).
NASA and NOAA are working together to manage the fleet of satellites that monitor the sun and help to predict changes in solar.
A pair of spacecraft called Stereo (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) is located on the opposite side of the sun, which can display a mix of 90 percent of the solar surface.
In addition, the SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory which), which has just launched in February 2010, can produce new photo active part in the solar surface.
Also, an old satellite called the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), which was launched in 1997, still monitoring the sun.
"I believe we are on the verge of new era where space weather can affect our lives everyday like usual weather of the earth." Fisher said. "For us, this is very serious."
Solar storm occurs when some point the sun burst and spew splattered particles that can be damaging. This activity takes place in cycles of 11 years.
"The sun has got up from bed length. And in the next few years we will see solar activity in the higher level," said the head of NASA's Heliophysics Division, Richard Fisher, like the Christian Science Monitor published pages.
"At the same time, technological society is developing a new sensitivity to face the storm the sun."
Society in the 21st century, he said, relies heavily on high-tech systems in daily life due to storm-prone in the sun.
GPS navigation, air travel, financial services and emergency radio communications could all die suddenly by solar activity.
Economic damage caused by solar storms are expected twenty times larger than Hurricane Katrina - as a warning, issued the National Academy of Sciences in a report in 2008.
Fortunately, a lot of damage can be overcome if it knows when a storm is coming. That is why understanding of solar weather and a better ability to provide early warning, it is very important.
Placing the satellite in 'safe mode' and release the transformer in order to protect the electronics from damaging power surge.
"Space weather forecast was still in development, but we are making progress rapidly," said Thomas Bogdan, director of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA).
NASA and NOAA are working together to manage the fleet of satellites that monitor the sun and help to predict changes in solar.
A pair of spacecraft called Stereo (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) is located on the opposite side of the sun, which can display a mix of 90 percent of the solar surface.
In addition, the SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory which), which has just launched in February 2010, can produce new photo active part in the solar surface.
Also, an old satellite called the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), which was launched in 1997, still monitoring the sun.
"I believe we are on the verge of new era where space weather can affect our lives everyday like usual weather of the earth." Fisher said. "For us, this is very serious."