{"id":226301,"date":"2025-12-02T08:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/scientists-track-recent-solar-flare-disruptions-in-earths-ionosphere"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:04:28","slug":"scientists-track-recent-solar-flare-disruptions-in-earths-ionosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/scientists-track-recent-solar-flare-disruptions-in-earths-ionosphere","title":{"rendered":"Scientists track recent solar flare disruptions in Earth\u2019s ionosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-track-recent-solar-flare-disruptions-in-earths-ionosphere.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As this month\u2019s string of powerful X-class solar flares sparked brilliant auroras that lit up skies across an unusually wide swath of the globe\u2014from northern Europe to Florida\u2014researchers at NJIT\u2019s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) captured a less visible, but crucial, record of the storm\u2019s impact on Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Recent measurements recorded by NJIT\u2019s new network of radio telescopes show how a rare sequence of intense flares from Nov. 9\u201314, including an X5.1 event marking 2025\u2019s strongest flare so far, jolted the ionosphere\u2014the plasma-filled atmospheric layer essential for radio signals, GPS accuracy and satellite orbits.<\/p>\n<p>The flares triggered R3 (strong) radio blackouts across Africa and Europe, with several coronal mass ejections (CMEs) fueling a major geomagnetic storm and aurora at unusually low latitudes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this month\u2019s string of powerful X-class solar flares sparked brilliant auroras that lit up skies across an unusually wide swath of the globe\u2014from northern Europe to Florida\u2014researchers at NJIT\u2019s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) captured a less visible, but crucial, record of the storm\u2019s impact on Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere. Recent measurements recorded by NJIT\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226301","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}