Starts heavenly oracle

February 9, 2010, NASA plans to launch into space a unique device – Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which five years will follow the sun. And apart from the physical measurements will be continuously shoot it, handing to 60 images per minute. And that, experts say, will gather as much data as could not in previous years.

The pictures will be visible to the entire solar disk, and image quality at 10 times greater than that which now offers high-definition television – Citrine explains Liz (Liz Citrin), one of the leaders of the project at NASA (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland) . – We expect to obtain a complete picture of how distributed streams of plasma that is created on the surface of the Sun and its atmosphere, what is the configuration of magnetic fields.

- We will monitor all potentially dangerous to the Earth’s events – promises to Barbara Thompson (Barbara Thompson), chief scientist for the project.
Analyzing the obtained data and video, compiled from the sequential images, the scientists calculated to understand what processes inside the Sun correspond to the anomalies observed from the outside.

- I would like to learn how to be a kind of solar weather forecasts, predict storms and storms – especially the powerful, – says Liz Citrine.
Knowing subtleties kosmicheskoyya meteorology – a distant goal. The project has and immediate – SDO will notify people on Earth about the impending disaster. For the first time, perhaps, this goal will be more important than all the rest. NASA somehow believe that soon the Sun us very angry. At least …

Science fiction look at the sun with terror. And we are frightened. Minimum of two relatively recent thriller “Knowing” and “2012″ it is a source of global catastrophes. In the first film plasma, self-inflicted enraged beyond measure star, the earth burns. In the second – is the powerful tectonic shifts, causing destructive processes in the subsurface. In the first case it comes to the full end of the world without any possibility of escape. In the second – before the partial.

Projections are not as serious scholars nightmares. But they are not encouraging.

Recall last year in the public domain was naimrachneyshy report prepared by the American Academy of
Sciences (NAS): “Threats to Space Weather: social and economic consequences.” Its authors – NASA specialists who study solar activity. And they expect from the Sun global catastrophe. Literally speaking, the end of the world. In the most literal sense: the scientists are threatening that it – light – will not be on the entire planet. The cause of geomagnetic storms will become an unprecedented force, caused huge outbreaks in the Sun – the so-called coronal mass ejections.

- Effect of sudden solar storm comparable to a nuclear war or the fall of a giant asteroid on Earth – commenting on his findings, Professor Daniel Baker (Daniel Baker), an expert on space weather from the University of Colorado (University of Colorado in Boulder) and head of the Committee NAS, responsible for preparing report.

90 seconds – and the current on the Earth is not

Abrupt changes in the Earth’s electromagnetic field caused by solar flares, suggest a strong direct current. It was he able to literally burn the electrical network, is not designed for such loads.
The most vulnerable elements – transformers. They quickly peregreyutsya and melt. According to experts, only in the U.S. in 90 seconds after the impact will be burned up 300 key transformers. And without electricity will more than 130 million people. In other countries, probably would not be better.
Next to begin the so-called switched off. For energy networks in the continents are interconnected. And even the loss of any one site would entail a cascade of failures. But first to be affected areas, which have been provided with electricity better than others.
Further nightmare can easily imagine – we have because all life is based on electricity. Americans themselves predict the death of millions of their compatriots in the next year after the disaster. And paint a terrible picture: stop trains, elevators, industrial production, falling satellites, aircraft, stops water and heat supply. Leaking refrigerators. Silent radio, no TV show, interrupted us … End. Light no. I will not.

Olympics threatened

Mayan Indians, as is known, assigned end of the world on December 21, 2012. At least in that they are accused. American scientists have it – the end – a little closer – for some reason on September 22. English physicist, speaking before the launch SDO, talked about the end of July. They say, break out the solar storm of unprecedented power, it will cause the end of the electric light and frustrate the Olympic Games in London. On the reality of this threat quite seriously said Professor Richard Harrison (Richard Harrison) from Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire), which deals with the Sun.

Most astrophysicists now believe that shone finally woke up. And once it started 11-year cycle, the least of which was abnormally prolonged. In other words, the solar activity increases. And after anomalous calm may follow some kind of unprecedented storms. And it happens at the peak of activity, which is expected just in 2012.

It seems that NASA really afraid of their own forecasts. But their hopes on SDO – for prevention, which must deal with this orbital laboratory.
How figuratively all the same, Professor Harrison, “is – like rain: it can not stop, but you can find out when it begins and prepare.
Images and data sent to SDO, will respond immediately. This will leave about 17 hours to turn off electrical substations and the transfer of satellites in the standby mode. As a result, the damage can be reduced. But without light to sit still will.