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If
your mobile phone drops out over the next few days, for a change it may not be Telstra's
fault.
Three large explosions on the surface of the sun have seen US Government officials issue advisories warning of disruptions to satellites that provide telecommunication and GPS services.
Despite advances in protection systems, major electrical grids are also vulnerable to these events.
A
solar flare becomes a problem for the Earth when the flare and associated
coronal mass ejection are pointed in our direction.
The
first of these storms passed the Earth on Thursday with little impact but the
one passing now is stronger. The effects
of the third could be to amplify the effects of the second storm on the Earth’s
magnetic field.
Scientists
at the US Space Weather Prediction Centre predict the next peak in solar activity, known as a solar maximum, to occur in 2013.
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