What would the Earth’s magnetic field be like if it collided with a Carrington-type coronal mass ejection event? 🧲🌏
🧲 Voltage control and protection systems are damaged throughout the system. Power grids could be permanently down or out. Power transformers could be damaged.
🧲 Spacecraft suffers from concentrated charges on the surface, causing communication and directional problems.
🧲 Electrical currents in water pipes could reach hundreds of amps. High-frequency signaling failures.
🧲 Aurora and aurora develop as far as 40 degrees magnetic latitude.
Video simulation courtesy of
NASA’s GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
