Deep beneath the ice in Greenland and Antarctica, researchers have found signs of an enormous solar 'tsunami' that once crashed against Earth's atmosphere more than 9,000 years ago.
, when the Sun's activity is at a peak, but this ancient superstorm is on a whole other scale, and it appears to have struck during a quiet phase of the solar cycle.that we are wholly unprepared for a solar storm of this size. Experts still haven't figured out how to predict these rare yet disastrous events, and the infrastructure we have built today is exceptionally vulnerable to geomagnetic fallout.
satellites and astronauts in orbit, as well as air traffic control, electricity grids, and undersea cables, triggering travel limits, blackouts and global internet outages that could last for months.was a solar storm so severe, it collapsed telegraph systems in Europe and North America, while also triggering auroras right across the world, from Australia to Hawaii to China to Mexico.A solar flare or a coronal mass ejection is what usually triggers a solar storm.
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