{"id":121718,"date":"2021-04-18T18:02:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/smartphones-can-detect-huge-solar-storms"},"modified":"2021-04-18T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:02:29","slug":"smartphones-can-detect-huge-solar-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/smartphones-can-detect-huge-solar-storms","title":{"rendered":"Smartphones can detect huge solar storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smartphones-can-detect-huge-solar-storms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Massive solar storms in space can be picked up by iOS and Android smartphones, meaning billions of people have a personal geomagnetic storm detector \u2014 but the signals threaten to interfere with future location-based applications.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping to get the public more involved in science, study author Sten F. Odenwald, an astronomer at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, published a paper on the topic April 2 in <em>Space Weather<\/em>. It indicates that even through the unavoidable interference caused by other smartphone components, the phone\u2019s built-in magnetometers can detect<a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1029\/2020SW002669?campaign=wolacceptedarticle\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> geomagnetic storms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmartphones \u2014 at least theoretically \u2014 should be able to detect some of the strongest storms, pretty easily in fact,\u201d Odenwald told <em>The Academic Times.<\/em> \u201cEspecially if you happen to live up in the northern latitudes \u2014 in Minnesota or in Canada, or places like that where it really rocks and rolls.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive solar storms in space can be picked up by iOS and Android smartphones, meaning billions of people have a personal geomagnetic storm detector \u2014 but the signals threaten to interfere with future location-based applications. Hoping to get the public more involved in science, study author Sten F. Odenwald, an astronomer at the NASA Goddard [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}