Friday, March 9, 2012

Large Solar Flare To Glance Off Earth

The G, S, and R scales, for geomagnetic storms, solar radiation storms, and radio blackouts, respectively, work like that, where it maxes out at 5. The X scale on the other hand is linear in terms of X-ray flux. The scale keeps going, such as an X15 and X20 that contributed to the 1989 blackout, or one in 2003 estimated to be X28 to X45 (the former from a maxed out a sensor, the latter tries to correct for that). The scale also goes downward, in a partial logarithmic way, where a M1 is one tenth of an X1

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/OKPhLO5fYIw/large-solar-flare-to-glance-off-earth

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