NASA reveals the impact of solar flare explosions, one of which interferes with radio signals

Source: The Sun | Editor: Arif Budianto

KONTAN.CO.ID – NASA reveals the impact of solar flare explosions, one of which interferes with radio signals. Another impact of the explosion of the Sun flare?

Recently, the solar flare event occurred at the end of March. Quoting from the official NASA blog, the peak of the solar flare event was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory image.

According to NASA, a solar flare is a powerful burst of energy from the sun. Sun flares that occurred some time ago are classified as Class-X.

Class X shows the most intense flares, while the numbers provide more information about its strength. For example, the Sun’s information flare is at X2, stronger than X1, while X3 is three times more powerful.

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Reported from The Sun (5/4/2022), the solar flare that occurred on March 30, 2022 was then at number X1.3.

The good news is that this solar flare poses no threat to Earth, because of its different direction of explosion. However, if the direction of the Sun’s flare is toward Earth, it will have an impact on the power grid and satellites.

NASA added that solar flares and eruptions could impact radio communications, power grids, navigation signals, and pose a risk to spacecraft and astronauts.

Regarding solar flares, an event that is closely related to this is the solar eruption in 1989. This event fired a large number of electrically charged particles towards Earth.

This had an impact in the province of Quebec, Canada, which experienced a nine-hour blackout.

In addition to causing problems with electrical interference or similar technology, solar eruptions also endanger astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS).

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Radiation exposure may interfere with mission control communications.

Lucky are the living things that live on Earth. The Earth’s magnetic field helps protect all inhabitants from something even more extreme than a solar flare.

At a later date, NASA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft will observe a similar phenomenon, culminating in 2025. It will observe everything within 26 million miles of the Sun.