SpaceGizmodoabout 14 hours ago
NASA Warns of Underestimated Solar Storm Risks
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NASA Goddard physicists led by Nithin Sivadas found that extreme solar storms may have no upper limit on energy transferred to Earth's polar ionosphere. The 2003 Halloween Storms disrupted FAA navigation for 26 hours. Current measurements from L1 satellites overestimate solar wind, skewing worst-case scenario estimates.
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