A scientist who hails form India has managed to develop a unique tool – one that is touted to be able to predict large solar storms with a timeframe of more than 24 hours in advance, as well as do its bit to save systems that are on the Earth from the threat of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). This particular tool hails from the brilliant mind of Neel Savani, who is a visiting researcher over at Imperial College London, and he also wears the hat of being a space scientist at NASA.
Such a new measurement and modelling tool would be able to take a far more intimate look at the particular areas where mass ejections originate from on the sun, and it will also utilize a vast array of observatories in order to keep track track and model the evolution of the cloud. At the moment, satellites are limited to being able to tell with a select degree of certainty the orientation of a mass ejection’s magnetic field only when it is relatively close to the Earth, which would be a 30 minute to an hour’s window – and hence, this 24 hours advance prediction is definitely a boon to mankind.
After all, such mass ejections can play havoc with GPS technology, which happen to be widely used in different kinds of vehicles and transportation modes like cars and aircraft systems. Of course, further testing is required in order for this particular system to work as intended, and to be integrated seamlessly worldwide.