Can Obama deal with giant hole in Earth's magnetosphere by 2012?
Barack Obama & Energy Sec Stephen Chu. Photo: AP
NASA scientists on December 16, 2008 announced
that “THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic
field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist.”
NASA’s THEMIS mission comprises 5 probes launched in February 2007 to
measure the Earth’s magnetic field. According to Wenhui Li,
a University of New Hampshire space physicist analyzing the NASA THEMIS
mission: "The opening was huge—four times wider than Earth
itself."Jimmy Raeder, another University of New Hampshire scientist
analyzing the THEMIS project data said:
"We've seen things like this before but never on such a large scale.
The entire day-side of the magnetosphere was open to the solar wind."
The breach is allowing up to 20 times the normal amount of solar
particles to enter the Earth’s atmosphere according to the NASA
announcement.
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no, we are doomed