A Solar Eruption expected to hit Earth, trigger Geomagnetic Storm on February 09
New Delhi: A fresh solar eruption is expected to hit the earth on Wednesday, February 09, and Thursday, February 10, 2022. However, scientists claim that the impact is unlikely to be very hazardous.
The Centre of Excellence in Space Sciences (CESS) tweeted, “A filament of the solar eruption was observed on the south of disk center of the Sun on February 06, 2022. The Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) recorded the phenomena.”
SOHO is a joint mission by NASA and the European Space Agency launched in 1995. It studies the sun and routinely identifies coronal mass ejections.
According to researchers, the eruption will trigger a geomagnetic storm. “A moderate geomagnetic storm in the range of 451-615 kilometers per second will impact the planet from 11.18 am IST on February 9 to 3.23 pm IST on February 10, 2022,” the CESS tweeted.
A geomagnetic storm is a major disturbance in the earth’s magnetosphere that occurs due to a very efficient exchange of energy from the solar wind into the space environment surrounding a planet. These storms produce changes in currents, plasma, and fields in the earth’s magnetosphere.
Geomagnetic storms can even disrupt some high-frequency radio broadcasts and low-frequency navigation.
(Avya Mathur)
