In July 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first person to run on the moon. Now, NASA and its international partners in the Artemis Accords are working to send humans back to live this time. The journey will be challenging, especially since space is a very uninterrupted place for humans! An unexpected source of danger will be the Sun.
Providing the Sun allows life to flourish on Earth. But this energy can also be dangerous for us. This danger can be as simple as receiving sunburn if you are in sunlight for a very long time, or complicated as a geomagnetic storm that causes chaos in our satellite network.
Things become more complicated in space. On Earth, the atmosphere and magnetosphere protect us from most solar energy. But there is no protection among spacecraft and astronauts in space. For astronauts on upcoming Artemis missions for the moon, the radiation of the sun can cause anything for a longer long -term risk of cancer from wasted electronics.
On August 2, 1972, a huge solar storm began with the Sunspot MR11976 explosion. One of the corenal mass ejections (CMES) went from the Sun to Earth in less than 15 hours. This is a record that still stands today! This led to ups and downs in the power grid and caused havoc with spacecraft in the flight. Recently, American military records suggest that the storm exploded from the Vietnamese coast, as well as.
Importantly, August 1972 occurred between Apollo 16 and 17 missions for the solar storm moon. Studies suggest that astronauts could have been badly ill with the path to the moon, and astronauts on the surface, especially on the surface. If there is a solar storm of equal severity during future lunar missions, this danger remains real.
Organizations such as NASA and NOAA keep an eye on the Sun to predict potential sources of danger. If a solar flare or a coronal mass ejection (CM) is in the way, scientists should be able to present premature danger to take steps to reduce damage. For astronauts visiting the moon, this can be simple as taking shelter in a particular part of their spacecraft.
NOAA’s space Weather follow-on maintains their space weather observations and measurements. The CCOR-1 of NOAA flew on the Goes-19 spacecraft and provides significant close-real time CME data. The CCOR-2 instrument will fly on SWFO-L1. Other missions include a long -running cooperation between Soho, NASA and European Space Agency, and Hermes, NASA Heliopzix tools, intended for the Chandra Gateway that will revolve around the moon.
The Mars Space Weather Analysis Office (M2M SWAO) from NASA also conducts real -time space weather assessment. These support new abilities to understand the effects of the space season on NASA’s discovery activities, including the moon.
Because of which we want to go back to the moon, a large part of the information is a wonderful level of information which we can learn about the history of the solar system. “No object in our solar system is only present in isolation,” explains a research scientist in the planet geology, geophysics and geochemistry lab at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “It is constantly interacting with meteors and meteors. That is why you see a lot of effects on the moon. But it is also constantly interacting with the Sun.” It can come from solar air, CME and other forms of solar energy that collides with the barren surface of the moon.
Saxena explains that the lack of magnetosphere of the moon means that the lunar surface material effectively implicates evidence of the habits of the sun. “A lot of energetic particles that we will otherwise be seen deformed by the magnetosphere and atmosphere of the Earth are affecting the surface of the moon. So you can actually find back what the history of the Sun can be.”
He compares it to scientists taking ice core to get a glimpse in the Earth’s atmospheric history. Everything from the evidence of the prehistoric solar environment is known as to affect the water on the lunar surface closed in the rocks, which is untouched for millions of years on a large scale, it is clear why NASA wants to go back and take another look.
But it is still important for both metal and organic explorers to keep an eye on potential hazards. In an interview, NASA’s former association for space science and applications, Lenard Fisk described a conversation with Neil Armstrong. More than anything during Apollo 11, Armstrong was afraid of provoking a solar. He knew that he might depend on his spacecraft and crew. But the space weather was an uncontrollable variable.
In 1969 we had a different understanding of the space season. Space radiation, including solar wind, was then a new discovery. But the research conducted in the early days still helped create paying successes, and we are constructing with new missions with these discoveries that carry forward our knowledge of the Sun and the rest of our solar system.
