Space Weather

What is space weather

The term of space weather refers to the

variable conditions on the sun and in space
that can influence the performance of
technology we use on earth
Before Space Weather Occurs
•  Space weather-related power outages can cause:
• Loss of water and wastewater distribution systems.
• Loss of perishable foods and medications.
• Loss of heating/air conditioning and electrical lighting systems.
• Loss of computer systems, telephone systems and communications
systems (including disruptions in airline flights, satellite network
transportations and GPS services).
• Loss of public systems.
• Loss of fuel distribution systems and fuel pipelines.
• Loss of all electrical systems that do not have back-up power.
 July 2012 – The one that missed Earth

An extreme solar storm tore through Earth’s orbit… but

missed us by a week, instead hitting the STEREO-A
spacecraft. Experts believe it was as powerful as the
Carrington event and twice as powerful as the 1989 event
that caused the Quebec blackout, and could have caused The coronal mass ejection, as
mass disruption to satellite GPS and communication photographed by STEREO
systems and widespread power blackouts. If it had hit
Earth, it is estimated that the economic impact would
have been around US$2 trillion and that it would have
taken us years to recover.
July 2012 Sunspot Appear Frequency
Magnetosphere
A magnetosphere is the region around a planet dominated
by the planet's magnetic field. Other planets in our solar
system have magnetospheres, but Earth has the strongest
one of all the rocky planets: Earth's magnetosphere is a
vast, comet-shaped bubble, which has played a crucial
role in our planet's habitability. Life on Earth initially
developed and continues to be sustained under the
protection of this magnetic environment. The
magnetosphere shields our home planet from solar and
cosmic particle radiation, as well as erosion of the
atmosphere by the solar wind - the constant flow of
charged particles streaming off the sun.
The solar cycle, also known as the solar magnetic activity cycle,
sunspot cycle, is a nearly periodic 11-year change in the Sun's
activity measured in terms of variations in the number of
observed sunspots on the Sun's surface. Over the period of a
solar cycle, levels of solar radiation and ejection of solar material,
the number and size of sunspots, solar flares, and coronal loops
all exhibit a synchronized fluctuation from a period of minimum
activity to a period of a maximum activity back to a period of
minimum activity.

Solar cycle
Sunspots are the dark regions
seen on surface of the Sun.
Sunspots appear dark because
their temperature are lower than
the surrounding areas which
made up of granules

Sun Spots
Beside than Sunspots are
caused by disturbances in the
Sun's magnetic field welling up
to the photosphere
Thank
you…