In the early morning of March 13, 1989, there was an unprecedented and bizarre power outage in Quebec, Canada
At that time, six million residents of Quebec, Canada, were asleep, and although it was not far from spring at this time, due to the high latitude of the region, the outdoor temperature was still as low as minus twenty degrees, and the indoor heating was constantly transporting heat.
Suddenly, the heating stopped working at 2:45, the cold gradually occupied the room, the indoor temperature dropped sharply, and all the street lights on the road were extinguished at the same time, and the sudden power outage event plunged the Quebec region into darkness in just 92 seconds, until the people who were sleeping were frozen awake.
At the time of the blackout, four or five hundred kilometers away from Quebec, new York State, there were also dazzling pink auroras, we know that the auroras generally appear in the polar regions of the earth, according to the latitude of New York State, there is no aurora here. So what happened to this bizarre blackout?
Later, NASA released a set of more than 250 anomalous data about the sun, which showed that before the great power outage, the sun originally experienced a large-scale storm, and after the outbreak, it carried a surprising amount of plasma charges directly into the earth, which triggered the earth's magnetic storm, and the large amount of current generated by the magnetic storm seriously overloaded the transmission line, and then the big power outage event occurred.
So what is the "sacred" of such a powerful solar storm?
Simply put, a solar storm is a phenomenon of intense activity that erupts on the surface of the sun!
We know that of all the celestial bodies in the universe, the most closely related to human beings is the sun. In fact, the sun is not as calm as we see on Earth, on the contrary, six hundred million tons of hydrogen nuclear fusion occurs every second in the interior of the sun, and then converted into 596 million tons of helium, which produces energy equivalent to 4 million tons of hydrogen energy.
In general, its electromagnetic radiation and thermonuclear reactions are usually in a relatively stable state. But when the sun has a brief burst of activity locally, it releases a great deal of energy in an instant. Its high-energy particles will be thrown into outer space at a speed close to the speed of light, and reach the earth in a short period of time, which will seriously disturb the earth's magnetic field and bring great harm.
When a solar storm occurs, the first to reach the earth is the enhanced electromagnetic radiation traveling at the speed of light, which will first disturb the earth's ionosphere, so that the density of the yang ionosphere increases extremely quickly, resulting in the attenuation of the radio when passing through this area, the storm is too strong or in the polar region, communication will be completely interrupted, and cause the aircraft and ship navigation system to fail, which is very easy to cause collision accidents
After the electromagnetic radiation, it is time for the impact of high-energy particles. These high-energy particles will constantly hit satellites launched by humans in synchronous orbit, and penetrate the electronic devices inside, causing errors in the satellite's control system, ranging from brief data anomalies to permanent damage to electronic components until they are scrapped.
If we have astronauts doing extravehicular activities at this time, these high-energy particles will even produce a deadly radiation dose to astronauts, endangering astronauts' lives.
But for us on the earth, solar storms will not directly cause great harm to the human body, because we have the double protection of the earth's magnetic field and the earth's atmosphere, and its hazards are mainly reflected in aviation, electricity, communications and so on. But if we encounter a strong solar storm, it will still have serious consequences for our modern life and bring huge economic losses.
Therefore, at present, human attention to the sun is also increasing, in case the super solar storm occurs again, can take precautions in advance!