Image courtesy of NASA Goddard. A solar storm, or coronal mass ejection (CME),
erupts from the sun in August 2012, .
Joel Kontinen
The Sun is mostly stable
but at times solar storms can change the picture.
When that happens, underwater cables that connect nations could go
offline for months, a new study claims.
In 2012, a solar storm or coronal mass ejection erupted
from the Sun., but it did not cause much havoc.
The major storms, such as the one they had in 1859 and the other in
1921, may cause the Internet to go down, .
“Smaller storms can
also pack a punch; one in March 1989 blacked out the entire Canadian province
of Quebec for nine hours.”
Source:
Specktor,
Brandon. 2021. An 'Internet apocalypse' could
ride to Earth with the next solar storm, new research warns. Live Science 6
September.
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