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Solar Storms Causes And Disadvantages

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Solar storms are a problem in todays society that many people do not know about. If there were a massive solar storm some people believe that it could do trillions of dollars worth of damage on satellites, radio communications and more. In the life of nowadays society communication is everything, so if a large solar storm was to take place not only would there be a lot of damage but communication all over the world would fall out and there would be widespread terror all over the world. This could also make planes lose radio communication inflight and could cause planes to crash around the world.
Solar storms usually happen when the solar activity is at its peak. This usually happens each 11 years. The last solar peak was in 2012. Solar storms do not come right away. It begins with sunspots on the sun which are large dark spots that are even bigger than planet Earth. The area around the sunspot is very unstable and it can cause a sudden solar flare which then creates a solar wind a stream of charged particles which will knockout technology if big enough. If a Solar storms is particularly big they will create coronal mass ejections(CME’s), which are huge clouds of plasma that travel at millions of miles per hour, consisting of energetic electrons and protons with smaller amounts of helium, oxygen and iron. The way the technology gets knocked out is by the electromagnetic forces which also causes amazing aurorae all around the world which is like the Northern lights.

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