The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is tracking an enormous magnetic filament on the sun. It stretches more than one million kilometers from end to end, which makes it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes.
The filament has remained mostly stable for at least two days (usually only last 60 – 120min). However, similar filaments in the past have been known to collapse, and when they hit the surface of the sun–bang! A tremendous explosion called a “Hyder flare” results, sometimes rivaling the strongest flares produced by sunspots. Solar physicists have not yet learned to predict Hyder flares, so we cannot estimate the odds of one now.
There is not a great deal known about Hyder Flare’s as they are a rare phenomenon. Last one occured September 12th 2000 causing a CME resulting in a minor geometric storm.
What would you do if this Hyder Flare caused a massive CME knocking out satellites?
You would have no
TV
Radio
Phone
Internet
All communications that relied on satellite would be down and depending on the size of the CME it could also effect ground communications……
So………….. what would you do??
