Just how bad could a big solar storm be in the internet age? And how would Australia be affected?
2 years, 9 months ago

Just how bad could a big solar storm be in the internet age? And how would Australia be affected?

ABC  

Samuel McGowan was an early adopter of technology for his time. Anatomy of a space storm Solar storms like the Carrington event are caused by explosive bursts of charged particles flung from the Sun in a phenomenon known as a coronal mass ejection. Loading YouTube content NASA predicts that Cycle 25 will be relatively quiet, and even though there was a solar storm recently that knocked out 40 SpaceX satellites, it's living up to that so far, Dr Schunker says. In the event of a large storm, Dr Abdu Jyothi's analysis suggests Australia will likely stay connected to New Zealand, but lose direct contact with the US. "In the past 30 years we've never had an instance of internet reset, where the whole system is shut down and has to come back up," Dr Abdu Jyothi says.

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