Yesterday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revealed that although active sunspot AR3315 is starting to decay, it could cause a solar storm on Earth. And just a day later, solar wind-gathering satellites could be released from sunspot activity and potentially trigger a solar storm over Earth tomorrow, June 2. The solar storm is not expected to be large, but it could still disrupt wireless communications and cause radio blackouts. Check out the details.
According to one report by SpaceWeather.com, “NOAA forecasters say G1 class is small geomagnetic storm could happen on June 2 when a solar wind is expected to hit the Earth’s magnetic field.” It is suspected that the gaseous material likely oozes out from a pair of holes in the Sun’s atmosphere. It is not known whether sunspots are directly related to this.
Solar storm expected tomorrow
Solar wind is not very similar to CME cloud, which is primarily responsible for solar storms on Earth. The main difference between the two is the magnitude of the charged particles. Since the solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun,2 they contain relatively fewer charged particles than coronal mass ejections, which are taken from the surface of the Sun. Sun.
However, they are still capable of causing small to moderate storms. Such solar storms may not be strong enough to affect cellular networks or damage satellites, they can still cause radio blackouts and disrupt GPS signals. And things could get worse if these solar winds pick up a CME in their path and combine with it to cause terrifying solar storms.
The Role of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) carries a full set of instruments for observing the Sun and has been doing so since 2010. It uses three very important instruments to collect data from the Sun. different activities of the Sun. These include the Magnetic and Heliocentric Imager (HMI) which performs high-resolution measurements of vertical and vector magnetic fields across the entire visible solar disk, the Ultraviolet Variation (EVE) experiment. The Sun’s ultraviolet irradiance measurement and the Atmospheric Imaging Consortium (AIA) provide continuous full-disc observations of the solar chromosphere and corona in seven ultraviolet (EUV) channels.
