New technique to monitor solar storms

Chinese scientists say they have found a new way to detect the direction of the eruption of coronal material on the sun's surface, the culprit behind the solar storms.

In collaboration with colleagues in the US and Europe, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a technique called geometric triangular measurements that can calculate the paths and speeds of CMEs. (ie the eruption of coronary material) while they move in space.

Solar storm is the obsession of modern humans - (Photo: NASA)

Triangular measurements, often applied in areas such as geodesy and orientation, involve the use of observation results from two different points to determine the location of the third point.

Expert Liu Ying and colleagues say data from the solar observation mission of the US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) is STEREO , based on the spacecraft's activity in Earth orbit. , can provide geometric triangular measurements to determine parameters related to CME.

This data can allow predicting when CME will reach Earth, as well as what speed they will reach.

Tracking the path of the solar storm may partially mitigate the damage to spacecraft, satellites, astronauts on Earth's orbit, as well as to the grid, mobile network and satellite orientation.