Catastrophic solar storms.

The sun, and its solar storms are a problem for our satellite networks, high voltage lines, communications and more, our civilization has expanded into a new territory, space, and we have mastered a new power, electricity, we have the planet wrapped in a network of satellites, therefore, now more than ever it is important to know the space weather and prevent solar storms, because in addition to the powerful storms like the ones we experienced just two weeks ago, there are monstrous storms, the Miyake events that can send us a good season. to the Middle Ages, literally.

When will it happen? We do not know, the last known thanks to the imprint it left on the growth ring of the trees of the time, a catastrophic solar storm that leaves its imprint on the growth ring of the trees, was in the year between 993 and 994, the problem with the tree rings is that you know the year, but you cannot fit it very well into the date, in the middle of the Middle Ages.

There was another previous storm, somewhat more powerful, 219 years before, in 774 to 775, 1031 years have passed since the last one, it is a long time for a miyake event, perhaps, the two previous ones in the Middle Ages, were a difference of just over 200 years, but we do not know if there is a pattern, the ones we know have been quite random.

A Miyake event is like 10 or 20 times more powerful than the Carrington event, a Miyake event would fry, scorch, or rather, our network of satellites and our electrical networks, and the most powerful one that multiplies these normal events occurred about 12,000 years ago, we do not know if there is a pattern, nor what causes them, we assume that it is due to a catastrophic solar flare, because we have seen some cases in stars similar to the sun that have had very strong flares. powerful, even though the sun is a stable star.

There is one thing clear and that is that they will happen again, and the problem is that now our entire civilization depends on electronic technology, in the time of Charlemagne, in the Middle Ages, they would see global auroras practically throughout the planet and little else, perhaps it would affect migratory birds, there is no reference to a mass extinction or anything like that, or loss of crops, but of course, at that time there was no electronic technology and that is very sensitive, as I mentioned before we have entered a new territory, the space, and we have a new power, electronics, but that new power also has its kryptonite, which are solar storms.

The question is, can we avoid the disaster of a Miyake event? Because it is going to happen, we cannot prevent it from happening, in the same way that the Egyptians or the Sumerians could not prevent the river from overflowing, but they could put measures in place, make canals, make their settlements on higher terraces, they could do certain things. What can we do? We do not have any power over the sun, but we can strengthen our technology, we can be alert, we can above all try to foresee it.

It is suspected that these events would be linked to the appearance of gigantic sunspots, so, if we capture a gigantic sunspot, we could take measures such as turning off sensitive equipment, or strategic equipment, I mean electronics, putting satellite networks on alert, evacuating space stations and more.

There is a problem and it is that the sun takes between 25 to 36 days to make a complete rotation, there are 25 days at the equator and 36 days at the poles, it sounds strange and the sun is not something solid, it is a mass of high temperature plasma, so at least there are about 12 and a half days in which we do not know what is happening on the other side of the sun, if we had ships located at different angles, it would allow us to gain time when it comes to predicting a solar storm. catastrophic and at the moment we don't have that, but we have an ally.

The previous photo is of the sun where you can see sunspots, but this photo you are seeing was not taken from Earth, it was taken by NASA's Perseverance Rover a few days ago and during the next few months this rover will have the task of solar astronomer, because it will not have many more tasks, let me explain, Mars will be passing behind the sun in these weeks, which allows Robert to see the hidden side of the sun or rather, the part that we do not see because it takes several days to rotate and This shape allows you to see sunspots that we cannot see from Earth and also how the spot evolves on that side.

In this way, it is very convenient to have rovers or probes on each planet, to be able to monitor the sun at every moment, in case one of these events occurs, to have data at hand to take measurements.

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