{"id":194808,"date":"2024-08-19T17:25:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T22:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/geomagnetic-storm-brings-northern-lights-to-unlikely-locations-and-disrupts-gps"},"modified":"2024-08-19T17:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T22:25:51","slug":"geomagnetic-storm-brings-northern-lights-to-unlikely-locations-and-disrupts-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/geomagnetic-storm-brings-northern-lights-to-unlikely-locations-and-disrupts-gps","title":{"rendered":"Geomagnetic Storm Brings Northern Lights to Unlikely Locations and Disrupts GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/geomagnetic-storm-brings-northern-lights-to-unlikely-locations-and-disrupts-gps.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Scott England: \u201cAs the aurora intensifies, you see more lights, but along with that, there\u2019s more energy entering the atmosphere, so it makes the atmosphere near the poles very hot, which starts to push air away from the poles and towards the equator.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>How do powerful geomagnetic storms from the Sun influence the Earth\u2019s atmosphere? This is what two separate studies (<a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1029\/2024GL110632\">Karan et al. (2024)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1029\/2024GL110506\">Evans et al. (2024)<\/a>) published in <em>Geophysical Research Letters<\/em> hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how the geomagnetic storm that occurred between May 10\u201312, 2024\u2014resulting in worldwide aurorae\u2014impacted the Earth\u2019s thermosphere, which is the Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere extending approximately 70 miles to 130 miles above the Earth\u2019s surface. This study holds the potential to help researchers better understand the short-and long-term effects of geomagnetic storms on the Earth\u2019s atmosphere and how this could influence activities on the surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe northern lights are caused by energetic, charged particles hitting our upper atmosphere, which are impacted by numerous factors in space, including the sun,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1054741\">said Dr. Scott England<\/a>, who is an associate professor in the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech and a co-author on both studies. \u201cDuring solar geomagnetic storms, there\u2019s a lot more of these energetic charged particles in the space around Earth, so we see a brightening of the northern lights and the region over which you can see them spreads out to include places like the lower 48 states that usually don\u2019t see this display.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Scott England: \u201cAs the aurora intensifies, you see more lights, but along with that, there\u2019s more energy entering the atmosphere, so it makes the atmosphere near the poles very hot, which starts to push air away from the poles and towards the equator.\u201d How do powerful geomagnetic storms from the Sun influence the Earth\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194808","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\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}