[week 71]

Zoinks!

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Headline is BS.

I wonder who came up with it (DM or DS).

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If you’re interested in non-hyperventilating news about solar weather, check out Solar Ham: https://www.solarham.net/

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Prepper Ping - The potential of a massive Solar Sun Spot has been noted by astronomers
This is a gentle reminder that if you have your prepper plans online, or on a computer, you really don't have them --> print them out !
Better safe than sorry ! Why risk it ?
Electronic equipment is potentially most vulnerable, as is the electrical supply system, depending on the size and impact on our stratosphere

NorthMountain :”As for the sunspot ...It will probably puke up some horrible huge CME.
And it will probably be pointed away from us when it does.”

Peter ODonnell :” Interesting. Mars is pretty much behind the Sun at this point in its orbit so the Mars rover is looking at the back side of the Sun from our perspective
and seeing a sunspot that will rotate around into our view in a few days.
The Sun takes about 25-26 days to rotate.
I recall that in 2012 there was a very large CME event similar to the dreaded Carrington event of 1859 (that would fry our modern electronics as it did the primitive telegraph system then operating).
Luckily for us, the 2012 CME was pointed at right angles to the Sun-earth line
and went off harmlessly into a different part of the solar system."

( From the news article): ” Experts have warned that the dark region, which is cooler than the surrounding area,
could release energetic explosions capable of knocking out our planet's power grids.
The exact measurements of the sunspot are unknown, but NASA's Perseverance rover snapped images of the spot as it sits more than 152 million miles from the sun. “

” The rover observed the sunspot on August 17 through August 20 while exploring the Jezero Crater on the Red Planet. “