Saturday, April 24, 2010

Solar Storms



Bursts of solar radiation can be crippling and life-threatening telecommunication systems.

Not only the United States Space Agency (NASA) launched a rocket that could berinisatif to anticipate the effects of sun storms. We were able to participate to save the Earth.

The trick? There are many pages that give you an opportunity to save the world, one www.solarstormwatch.com.

Pages that allow the user to help scientists discover the location of the storm on the sun - before causing damage on Earth.

This page is built on cooperation Royal Observatory Greenwich, Facilitation Council for Science and Technology Laboratory and Rutherford Appleton Zooniverse site.

"When you look directly at the Sun, of course it was too light for my eyes to see properly"said Dr Marek Kukula from the Royal Observatory as pages loaded BBC.

The sun could only be observed with special instruments and telescopes.

So far, NASA has been monitoring the Sun uses two spacecraft called 'Stereo'. The rocket is to produce images - pictures latest situation of the Sun.

However, the tremendous amount of data made a lot of NASA scientists are not able to analyze the data as detailed as possible. They need the help of Internet users.

Stormwatch pages users can access 3D images produced by Stereo.

However, the user must undergo a brief training on the identification of solar storms. Basic training using the sun image in color.

If you otherwise qualify, users will be trained to use satellite images from Stereo black and white spots - like a TV picture is damaged.

The user also supplied a number of knowledge, including how to distinguish the comet, halo, and dust of the Sun.

"Regardless how small is very important" added Kukula.

"Ive talked to a few scientists involved and they all agree that even though you log on and just make the observation for several hours, then get bored and never touch it again - it's all very useful and helpful" he continued.

According to scientists, Chris Davis, there will be 100 000 received images from Stereo within two and a half years."We need as many people as possible to review the data. Therefore, the opinion of one person are just opinions" he said, such as pages loaded Storm Watch.

Solar storm will cause a huge explosion which threw billions of tons of matter into space.

When it touched the earth, that's when the problem occurred. Bursts of radiation from the Sun can cripple the telecommunications system, causing damage and even endanger lives.


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