{"id":161598,"date":"2023-04-05T16:25:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/nasas-dagger-could-give-advance-warning-of-the-next-big-solar-storm"},"modified":"2023-04-05T16:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:25:33","slug":"nasas-dagger-could-give-advance-warning-of-the-next-big-solar-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/nasas-dagger-could-give-advance-warning-of-the-next-big-solar-storm","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s DAGGER could give advance warning of the next big solar storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-dagger-could-give-advance-warning-of-the-next-big-solar-storm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s enough trouble on this planet already that we don\u2019t need new problems coming here from the sun. Unfortunately, we can\u2019t yet destroy this pitiless star, so we are at its mercy. But NASA at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2023\/sun\/nasa-enabled-ai-predictions-may-give-time-to-prepare-for-solar-storms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">may soon be able to let us know<\/a> when one of its murderous flares is going to send our terrestrial systems into disarray.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding and predicting space weather is a big part of NASA\u2019s job. There\u2019s no air up there, so no one can hear you scream, \u201cWow, how about this radiation!\u201d Consequently, we rely on a set of satellites to detect and relay this important data to us.<\/p>\n<p>One such measurement is of solar wind, \u201can unrelenting stream of material from the sun.\u201d Even NASA can\u2019t find anything nice to say about it! Normally this stream is absorbed or dissipated by our magnetosphere, but if there\u2019s a solar storm, it may be intense enough that it overwhelms the local defenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s enough trouble on this planet already that we don\u2019t need new problems coming here from the sun. Unfortunately, we can\u2019t yet destroy this pitiless star, so we are at its mercy. But NASA at least may soon be able to let us know when one of its murderous flares is going to send our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161598","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}