During the Cold War era, which lasted for about 45 years, the Soviet Union and the United States were engaged in nuclear competition games. Neither super powers did not deploy nuclear weapons on their territory, but nuclear tests at high altitude brought about the turbulence of the Earth's atmosphere. Thankfully the conflict concluded long ago, but from the information that was recently released from confidentiality, it is obvious that it may have influenced the universe weather in our unexpected form became.
Space Science in the Reviews published a new paper that has been being, by the nuclear test at high altitude at which the Soviet Union and the United States has led, in the vicinity of the Earth has been made "artificial radiation belt". The earth was originally surrounded by the Van Allen radiation zone which is the area of high energy particles. However, energy from the nuclear explosion formed a heated and charged area in the atmosphere, which not only caused the geomagnetic disturbance but also generated its own radiation band. As you can imagine, the result is not pleasant, and the authors of the study wrote that this was a major damage to multiple satellites, which had orbited the earth at a very low altitude .
Radiation from the sun and particles with high energy frequently act on geomagnetism as a phenomenon called space weather. If the particles of these high-energy downpours enough to the magnetosphere, communication satellite to be even and the ground of the power grid suffer serious damage. However, radiation from the nuclear explosion in the 1960s is an extreme example that human beings can also influence geomagnetism, so it is not only important to elucidate but also frightened.
According to NASA's article, Phil Eriksson, co-author of research and deputy director of Mr. Haystack Observatory, says, "Although experiments were done by humans, the extremes of the influence of the space weather that are frequently caused by the sun It is an example. " "If we understand what happened with somewhat controlled extreme events caused by one of these artificial events, we can more easily understand the natural variation of the environment near the universe I will become like. "
Furthermore, the space agency also hopes to better understand how to protect astronauts in low orbit from the influence of space weather by clarifying how artificial geomagnetic disturbances affected the atmosphere.
Studying artificial cosmic weather may also cast light on the damage to the power grid and technology by the huge solar storm that will be coming up next .
Strange how fiddling around with splitting atoms can have an affect on our atmosphere... who'd of thought?
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