What a solar storm looks like.

Solar storm refers to the violent outburst of activity produced by the sun during the peak phase of spade activity. The high-speed particle stream formed by the release of a large number of charged particles during the eruption seriously affects the Earth's space environment, destroying the ozone layer, interfering with wireless communications, and posing a certain risk to human health. The sun will produce solar storms at the peak of sunspot activity, it is by the United States "Mariner 2" detector found in 1962, it is the sun due to the increase in energy to make their own activities to strengthen, thus releasing a large number of charged particles into the vast space formed by high-speed particle flow, scientists likened this phenomenon to the sun to hit the "sneeze". "sneeze". As the main content of the air mass in the solar wind is charged plasma, and with a speed of 1.5 million to 3 million kilometers per hour to break into space, so it will have a huge impact on the Earth's space environment. When a solar storm erupts, it will affect communications, threaten satellites, destroy the ozone layer, and have some impact on human health Solar storm characteristics Editorial Sunspot activity usually takes 11 years as a cycle, and the peak of the current cycle was seen in 2000. More than three years after the peak, sunspots became active again, leading to the production of solar storms, which are somewhat anomalous. In addition to the solar storm effect, sunspots also cause high-energy flare bursts, the latter of which will last perhaps another week or two and could affect radio communications on Earth. The new round of solar storms, caused mainly by streams of gas and charged particles released from the huge cluster of newly formed sunspots on the sun's surface, is heading toward Earth at about 3.2 million kilometers per hour. Observation with the naked eye is very dangerous Edit paragraph Observation of "sunspots" with the naked eye is very dangerous, as the sunlight is particularly harsh when producing black seeds; direct observation with the naked eye will be very easy to be burned by the intense light. Wang Sichao introduced a safer observation method, will be poured into the sun ink in the water basin, the water becomes black, the sun's reflection in the inside, will show the phenomenon of black, but the observation is much fainter. 2012 90-second solar storm coming to edit this paragraph According to the British "New Scientist Magazine" reported, recently, American scientists released a special report, the report predicted that September 22, 2012 will be a solar storm, the analysis said that this may cause a disaster on Earth, 90 seconds after the United States, some areas will be plunged into a catastrophic crisis. It is likely that the U.S. will be reduced to a developing country, with economic losses amounting to trillions of dollars, and recovery could take 4-10 years, with a destructive force far greater than that of Hurricane Katrina. Special Report Says 90-Second Solar Storm Crisis on September 22, 2012 At midnight on September 22, 2012, there will be a shimmering, colorful light over Manhattan, New York, New Yorkers will rarely see such a brief and unique aurora-like phenomenon, which is only seen in Antarctica. In a matter of seconds, light bulbs in residents' homes begin to dim and flicker, then become unusually bright. After that the bulbs went out completely. Within 90 seconds, half of the eastern half of the United States would be in a blackout crisis. A year later, millions of Americans would be dead and the nation's infrastructure would be on the verge of collapse. The World Bank will declare the U.S. a developing country, and Europe's Scandinavia (a generic term for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland), China, and Japan will experience the same catastrophe, which stems from a violent solar storm - from the surface of the sun 150 million kilometers away from Earth. The above can sound a little absurd, and many people will believe that such a tragic catastrophe will not occur on Earth. But this is not alarmist talk. In January of this year, the National Academy of Sciences issued a special report funded by NASA, which seriously raised the issue of a "future solar storm crisis". The report pointed out that in the past few decades, the rapid development of Western culture in the same time also sowed the seeds of destruction, the modern lifestyle and rely on science and technology in quietly push human beings into a special danger - from the sun's surface plasma ball will destroy our power grid, and cause fatal consequences. Daniel Baker, a space climate expert at Colorado State University who drafted the study, said, "We are getting closer and closer to the edge of a possible catastrophe." The surface of the sun releases large amounts of plasma - high-energy particles that escape from the sun's surface to travel through space as solar wind. Sometimes the solar wind carries billions of tons of plasma globules, and if a large amount of plasma globules were to enter the Earth's magnetic field, it would create a devastating disaster. According to Britain's New Scientist Magazine, recently, American scientists released a special report that predicted a solar storm on September 22, 2012, which, according to the analysis, could cause a catastrophe on Earth, with some parts of the U.S. plunging into a catastrophic crisis 90 seconds later. It is likely that the U.S. will be reduced to a developing country, with economic losses amounting to trillions of dollars, and recovery could take 4-10 years, with a destructive force far greater than that of Hurricane Katrina. Special Report Says 90-Second Solar Storm Crisis on September 22, 2012 At midnight on September 22, 2012, there will be a shimmering, colorful light over Manhattan, New York, New Yorkers will rarely see such a brief and unique aurora-like phenomenon, which is only seen in Antarctica. In a matter of seconds, light bulbs in residents' homes begin to dim and flicker, then become unusually bright. After that the bulbs went out completely. Within 90 seconds, half of the eastern half of the United States would be in a blackout crisis. A year later, millions of Americans would be dead and the nation's infrastructure would be on the verge of collapse. The World Bank will declare the U.S. a developing country, and Europe's Scandinavia (a generic term for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland), China, and Japan will experience the same catastrophe, which stems from a violent solar storm - from the surface of the sun 150 million kilometers away from Earth. The above can sound a little absurd, and many people will believe that such a tragic catastrophe will not occur on Earth. But this is not alarmist talk. In January of this year, the National Academy of Sciences issued a special report funded by NASA, which seriously raised the issue of a "future solar storm crisis". The report pointed out that in the past few decades, the rapid development of Western culture in the same time also sowed the seeds of destruction, the modern lifestyle and rely on science and technology in quietly push human beings into a special danger - from the sun's surface of the plasma ball injection will destroy our power grid, and cause fatal consequences. Daniel Baker, a space climate expert at Colorado State University who drafted the study, said, "We are getting closer and closer to the edge of a possible catastrophe." The surface of the sun releases large amounts of plasma - high-energy particles that escape from the sun's surface to travel through space as solar wind. Sometimes the solar wind carries billions of tons of plasma globules, and if a large amount of plasma globules were to enter the Earth's magnetic field, it would create a devastating disaster. More destructive than Hurricane Katrina, often occurring in economically developed areas Plasma entering the Earth's atmosphere will lead to rapid changes in the structure of the Earth's magnetic field, inducing electrical currents in the grid of longer wires on the ground, which results in the copper wires of the transformers heating up quickly and melting, and the currents going out of control. a similar blackout occurred in the Canadian province of Quebec in March 1989, when six million residents spent nine hours without electricity for nine hours. But the worse doesn't stop there. The worst space weather event in history occurred in 1859, the famous Carrington Event, named after British amateur astronomer Richard Carrington, this time due to sunspots that caused severe space weather that lasted for eight days. According to James Green, head of NASA's Planetary Division, who was responsible for studying the 1859 Carrington event, although the solar surface eruption proved to be very powerful and frightening, we have yet to find anything worse than the Carrington event. Based on predictions of solar storm events occurring in 2012, we will still survive. But we will face two problems, the first is the modern power grid, modern power grids are designed to cover wider areas with higher voltages, and while this provides a more efficient way of operating the grid, it also turns out to be the most vulnerable to severe space weather. The higher power grid would turn out to be a very effective antenna, directing huge amounts of direct current through to the transformers. Secondly, the grid system is closely linked to our lives, with the grid system being closely linked to systems such as water and sewage systems, supermarket logistics infrastructure, power station control systems, financial markets, and so on. If these two factors are combined, then we will clearly realize that if the Carrington space weather event is repeated, it will trigger a catastrophic event that the world has never seen before. John Kappenman, an advisor to the National Academy of Sciences committee and a power industry analyst at MetaTech in California, said, "This is very different from the natural catastrophes we normally think of, where solar storms tend to hit more economically developed areas." Solar storm disasters can take 4-10 years to recover Based on this particular report from the National Academy of Sciences, severe space weather would induce the generation of ground currents within the United States, thereby destroying 300 critical transformers in the U.S. within 90 seconds, cutting off the power system for at least 130 million residents. The first difficulty that arises is the problem of drinking water; those living in high-rise buildings, where drinking water is difficult to arrive by pumping, would soon be quickly cut off from their drinking water source. Water is also not pumped from reservoirs due to power outages. The current situation is not only a disruption of the electricity system, but also the absence of rail transportation and the cessation of subway transportation; daily necessities will be consumed very quickly, supermarket shelves will be sold out very quickly, trucks delivering goods can only drive until the fuel runs out, and when the fuel runs out the drivers can do nothing about it, and petrol stations are unable to pump fuel from the underground tanks in the absence of electricity; For hospitals, the loss of electricity and potable water makes health care and medical resuscitation impossible. The real scary thing is that conditions don't improve for months, perhaps for years, and melted transformers can't be repaired, only replaced. Kapman says, "It may not be difficult to find a couple of spare transformers, but installing a new one requires a trained crew to install it for a week or more, yet a large power infrastructure may have previously been staffed with only one or two crews for routine maintenance." Even if power is restored to certain systems, there is no guarantee that they will be able to fail thereafter. Nearly all natural gas and fuel pipeline repairs require electrical support. Coal-fired power stations typically store the amount of coal needed to generate electricity for 30 days, but without other transportation systems to bring in more coal, the station would no longer be generating electricity in the second month. In fact, it gets worse. The social and economic costs of Katrina could reach $81-125 billion. According to the National Academy of Sciences, a "severe geomagnetic storm event" would likely result in losses of up to $2 trillion. And that's just the economic damage that would occur in the first year of a disaster; it would take 4-10 years to recover from a disaster, and it's doubtful that the U.S. would be able to recover in the face of such a catastrophe. European Space Agency Space Weather Study Group Chairman Mike Hapgood (Mike Hapgood) said: "I do not think this particular report is spreading rumors, scientists for the phenomenon of natural events research and analysis is still relatively objective, their analysis is carefully thought out. This is an unbiased scientific analysis of the report, and it deserves a great deal of attention."