www.riau24.com – Once launched, CMEs can travel at millions of miles per hour. At high speeds, they carry charged particles from the solar wind to form wavefronts that can trigger geomagnetic storms
Earth’s magnetosphere was damaged on Monday by a powerful shock wave that entered the planet. According to a report from Space Weather, mysterious shockwaves can cause geomagnetic storms when a blast of plasma hits Earth’s magnetic field.
For the uninitiated, the magnetosphere is our planet’s protective shield created by the magnetic field that protects the Earth from harmful radiation.
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Experts note that the magnetosphere is the region of space surrounding an astronomical object where charged particles are affected by the object’s magnetic field.
According to reports, the exact origin of the shock wave is unknown. But astronomers said it could be a coronal mass ejection (CME), which is an energetic and highly magnetic discharge of superheated gas released by the sun.
According to reports, astronomers have also warned that such a powerful shock wave could disrupt the flow of the solar wind, ultimately disrupting communications and electrical equipment.
The shock wave may have been launched from a region on the sun’s surface, known as AR3165. Once launched, CMEs can travel at millions of miles per hour. At high speeds, they carry charged particles from the solar wind to form wavefronts that can trigger geomagnetic storms.
Solar activity from flaring is low, but coronal holes in the sun’s northern hemisphere are the source of the high-speed solar wind that impinges on the Earth’s magnetic field. On December 21, we may see a small geomagnetic storm. Read more about: https://t.co/gNEIyUWJpK
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Geomagnetic storms are temporary perturbations of the Earth’s magnetosphere, caused by shock waves from the solar wind or magnetic field clouds interacting with the Earth’s magnetic field.
These storms cause the atmosphere to warm up and increase the density of the atmosphere at our low deployment altitudes.
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