Solar Storm

On Thursday March 8^th, the biggest solar storm hit us in the last 5 years! On Friday morning, the solar storm changed its direction, and hit earth massively as it travelled 4.5 million mph towards the southern side of earth. Luckily for us, this only made some little disrupts, and didn’t harm any of the satellites, electric grids, and GPS systems. The only thing that it did do was cause some auroras to happen in places like Michigan, Seattle, Alaska, New Zealand, Minnesota and Australia. On the grid, from G1 to G5 with G5 being the most powerful, this solar storm was rated G3. The largest solar storm to hit earth was in 1859. The Northern Lights where so powerful that they could be seen all the way up where Cuba is! And the Southern Lights were also so powerful that they were able to be seen all the way down in Santiago, which is in Chile. In some parts of the USA it was so bright that you could read your newspaper without turning on the lights because of how bright the aurora was! Luckily, back then there were no GPS’s and satellites to be broken, but some of the USA equipment was burned.

 

 

Bibliography:http://www.dogonews.com/2012/3/11/the-biggest-solar-storm-to-hit-earth-in-five-years-passes-without-incident