The Most Powerful Flare that it Overloaded the Sensors Cut Out at X 45 Class on Nov.28,2003. The Sun's Flares are not Physically Capable of Destroying Earth.
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The Most Powerful Flare that it Overloaded the Sensors Cut Out at X 45 Class
on Nov.28,2003.
.And even at their worst, the sun’s flares are not physically capable of destroying Earth.
Solar Flares: What Does It Take to Be X-Class?
Solar flares are classified according to their strength. The smallest ones are A-class, followed by B, C, M and X, the largest.
The Most Powerful Flare that it Overloaded the Sensors Cut Out at X 45 Class on Nov.28,2003
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Image: NASA-SDO
The most powerful flare on record was in 2003, during the last solar maximum. It was so powerful that it overloaded the sensors measuring it. They cut-out at X17, and the flare was later estimated to be about X45.
A powerful X-class flare like that can create long lasting radiation storms, which can harm satellites and even give airline passengers, flying near the poles, small radiation doses. X flares also have the potential to create global transmission problems and world-wide blackouts
Flares happen when the powerful magnetic fields in and around the sun reconnect.
They’re usually associated with active regions, often seen as sun spots, where the magnetic fields are strongest.
Model of March 15, 2013 CME’s Path – Space Weather Model Known as ENLIL the Sumerian Storm God
This NASA research model, prepared on March 15, 2013, from a space weather model known as ENLIL named after the Sumerian storm god, shows the way the CME was expected to travel toward Earth.
The view on the left is top down, while the one on the right shows Earth from the side
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On August 9, 2011 at 3:48 a.m. EDT, the sun emitted an Earth-directed X6.9 flare, as measured by the NOAA GOES satellite.
Image: NASA-SDO
These gigantic bursts of radiation cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to harm humans on the ground, however they can disrupt the atmosphere and disrupt GPS and communications signals.
In this case, it appears the flare is strong enough to potentially cause some radio communication blackouts.
It also produced increased solar energetic proton radiation — enough to affect humans in space if they do not protect themselves.
Solar Flares: What Does It Take to Be X-Class?
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Flares are classified according to their strength. The smallest ones are B-class, followed by C, M and X, the largest.
Similar to the Richter scale for earthquakes, each letter represents a ten-fold increase in energy output.
So an X is 10 times an M and 100 times a C. Within each letter class, there is a finer scale from 1 to 9. C-class flares are too weak to noticeably affect Earth.
M-class flares can cause brief radio blackouts at the poles and minor radiation storms that might endanger astronauts.
Although X is the last letter, there are flares more than 10 times the power of an X1, so X-class flares can go higher than 9.
For more on X-class solar flares:
For frequently asked questions on space weather:
Karen C. Fox
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
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