The Carrington Event and Emergency Preparedness The Carrington Event of 1859 was a giant solar storm that occurred by the sun that affected earth. How solar flares and solar storms occur is first they start off by the lines of the magnetic fields that sometimes overlap each other. As a result of this overlap, they can sometimes get tangled, which will cause the sun’s atmosphere to explode due to the magnetic fields overlapping and getting tangled with each other. The sun's spots on the sun increased in size. The sun’s sunspots can reach temperatures up to about 6,500 degrees Fahrenheit. How these sunspots form is the magnetic field on the sun’s atmosphere, the pressure from the magnetic field increases while the pressure that is around the
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When it reaches earth, it causes a magnetic storm. After the magnetic storm, the leftover charged particles will sometimes reach Earth's atmosphere, which will cause a light show to travel across the night sky. This beautiful light show is called an aurora. The solar storm started on September 1st 1859 and ended on September 2nd 1859. An astronomer named Carrington was sketching what the sunspots looked like. While he was sketching the sun spots, he could not see one of the sun’s spots. The giant solar storm that came down to Earth was the cause of the sun’s upper atmosphere producing a lot of plasma. The length of the travel of the plasma took 90 million miles from the sun to reach earth. Then once the plasma from the sun’s upper atmosphere reached earth, it caused a solar flare that Carrington saw. As a result of this, it caused one of the most powerful solar storms on earth. This is called the Carrington event because Carrington witnessed the solar flare and then the solar storm. After the giant solar storm was over, the storm created an aurora across the sky. This whole event lasted for 6 days, starting on August 28th and ending on September 3, 1859. The storm affected 200,000 km of the
When it reaches earth, it causes a magnetic storm. After the magnetic storm, the leftover charged particles will sometimes reach Earth's atmosphere, which will cause a light show to travel across the night sky. This beautiful light show is called an aurora. The solar storm started on September 1st 1859 and ended on September 2nd 1859. An astronomer named Carrington was sketching what the sunspots looked like. While he was sketching the sun spots, he could not see one of the sun’s spots. The giant solar storm that came down to Earth was the cause of the sun’s upper atmosphere producing a lot of plasma. The length of the travel of the plasma took 90 million miles from the sun to reach earth. Then once the plasma from the sun’s upper atmosphere reached earth, it caused a solar flare that Carrington saw. As a result of this, it caused one of the most powerful solar storms on earth. This is called the Carrington event because Carrington witnessed the solar flare and then the solar storm. After the giant solar storm was over, the storm created an aurora across the sky. This whole event lasted for 6 days, starting on August 28th and ending on September 3, 1859. The storm affected 200,000 km of the