Image courtesy of NASA/SDO.
Joel
Kontinen
If a solar storm
hits Earth, it could drive the aurora much further south than usual. it is
expected to push past Earth on May 7th,
”Continuing a months-long spate of heightened activity, the sun is currently crackling with powerful solar flares, which are often accompanied
by giant explosions of plasma known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). When CMEs
pass over Earth ,
they can temporarily compress our planet's magnetic shield, resulting in
geomagnetic storms that can knock out power grids, muddle radio waves and damage satellites in their path”
They can
also “temporarily compress our planet's
magnetic shield, resulting in geomagnetic storms that can knock out power
grids, muddle radio waves and damage satellites in their path”.
Source;:
Speter Brandon Giant blob of solar plasma could 'graze'
Earth this weekend, NOAA says Live Science 6 May
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