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Originally posted by Springer
When have you ever received a flag?
Seriously though, I have been in email contact with Chantel and plan on speaking with her tomorrow about possibly adding her as a regular in our ATSNews line up. I think her out of the box thinking, great camera presence and excellent research skills will make her a great addition.
I look forward to Space Weather Reports and anything else she wants to dig into.
Springer...
Modern society depends heavily on a variety of technologies that are susceptible to the extremes of space weather — severe disturbances of the upper atmosphere and of the near-Earth space environment that are driven by the magnetic activity of the Sun. Strong electrical currents driven in the Earth’s surface during auroral events can disrupt and damage modern electric power grids and may contribute to the corrosion of oil and gas pipelines. Changes in the ionosphere during geomagnetic storms driven by magnetic activity of the Sun interfere with high-frequency radio communications and GPS navigation. During polar cap absorption events caused by solar protons, radio communications can be severely compromised for commercial airliners on transpolar crossing routes. Exposure of spacecraft to energetic particles during solar energetic particle events and radiation belt enhancements can cause temporary operational anomalies, damage critical electronics, degrade solar arrays, and blind optical systems such as imagers and star trackers used on commercial and government satellites.
July 15, 2010: NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.
Thermosphere (atmosphere, 200px)
Layers of Earth's upper atmosphere. Credit: John Emmert/NRL. [larger image]
"This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). "It's a Space Age record."
The collapse happened during the deep solar minimum of 2008-2009—a fact which comes as little surprise to researchers. The thermosphere always cools and contracts when solar activity is low. In this case, however, the magnitude of the collapse was two to three times greater than low solar activity could explain.
"Something is going on that we do not understand," says Emmert.
This Solar Dynamics Observatory image of the Sun taken on January 10 in extreme ultraviolet light captures a dark coronal hole just about at sun center. Coronal holes are areas of the Sun's surface that are the source of open magnetic field lines that head way out into space. They are also the source regions of the fast solar wind, which is characterized by a relatively steady speed of approximately 800 km/s (about 1.8 million mph). As the sun continues to rotate, the high speed solar wind particles blowing from this hole will likely reach Earth in a few days and may spark some auroral activity.
July 27, 2010: Researchers using NASA's fleet of five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a form of space weather that packs the punch of an earthquake and plays a key role in sparking bright Northern Lights. They call it "the spacequake."
Spacequakes (animation, 200px)
A spacequake in action. Click to launch a computer-simulated movie created by Walt Feimer of Goddard's Scientific Visualization Lab.
A spacequake is a temblor in Earth's magnetic field. It is felt most strongly in Earth orbit, but is not exclusive to space. The effects can reach all the way down to the surface of Earth itself.
"Magnetic reverberations have been detected at ground stations all around the globe, much like seismic detectors measure a large earthquake," says THEMIS principal investigator Vassilis Angelopoulos of UCLA.
Originally posted by VI0811
reply to post by Human_Alien
I've been saying this along. This is very good. It to bad some small news station down in AZ is giving disclosure on this issue, that we all know is going to get worse as we head toward the crossing. Why our national government couldn't tell is the real issue, why are they not giving us the truth on this. Its almost dumb that they don't. This is exciting history we get to witness, and they keep it to themselves like some little kid trying to keep a secret ...
Kudo;s to this TV station
EPIC FAIL on our government ... yet ... once again
Originally posted by Allred5923
reply to post by Human_Alien
One thing is for sure, this is all very unusual. I have a friend that is an ornithologist, and he is rather concerned himself. He is an avid birdwatcher and has, as his education may tell, been witness to strange things as well. He told me just yesterday that there seemed too be a major influx of returning migratory birds to our area, ones that usually make their passage and return the following season. I live in North/Central USA, SE South Dakota. When my friend see's something like this, and he has no relevant answers for the chaos of the events, it raises my concern because of his knowledge and his deep felt love for the annual migrations of species of birds.
He has bird feeders that are usually ravaged by fowl all season long and this year, there is so few visitors to his bird feeder's that he brought the issue up to me, hence our discussion of these Magnetic anomalies was started.
Originally posted by SinkingSun
Uh oh, this is all too familiar.. like that horrible horrible movie "The Core"..
I am glad this woman is quite attractive. It takes away from the feeling of doom.
Originally posted by Komodo3
Originally posted by SinkingSun
Uh oh, this is all too familiar.. like that horrible horrible movie "The Core"..
I am glad this woman is quite attractive. It takes away from the feeling of doom.
Why do we have so many responses like this? What does her looks have anything to do with this serious subject? This life changing news!
Originally posted by Komodo3
and the HAARP device to help punch holes in the atmosphere to let the extra solar rays in.
Originally posted by exchristian1freethinker
Someone in here mentioned (can't find it now though) that the Solar System in it's entirety is passing through some kind of interstellar cloud at this time. In addition it is possible/likely that this "passing through" event will stir up issues with the Sun, the Earth, even possibly our health. Does anyone have a source or some other information related to this?
Originally posted by Komodo3
We are passing into the center of the Milky Way, through a dark rift at its center.
Originally posted by undo
yeah mercator projection map, here's a reference
en.wikipedia.org...
it's just a flat map of the world.
edit on 22-1-2011 by undo because: (no reason given)