How long have scientists known about space weather?
The effects of space weather have been known since primitive man first saw the northern lights. More recent discoveries include the solar wind. Space weather is noticed mostly by its effects on Earth. After a great solar flare in 1959, telegraph operators discovered that currents from the intense aurora borealis was flowing through their systems, causing their telegraph keys to melt and stick in position. During World War II, the new invention of radar failed whenever the space weather activity was high. Comet tails that curved and pointed way from the sun showed that a solar wind, a part of space weather, was always blowing out through the solar system. When police cars in San Francisco tried to talk to their dispatchers, dispatchers in Minneapolis answered. Plans for revisiting the Hubbell Telescope in orbit and boosting it high enough that it will not fall to Earth are driven by space weather. When space weather is high, the orbit decays more rapidly and booster missions must be flo
The effects of space weather have been known since primitive man first saw the northern lights. More recent discoveries include the solar wind. -student Space weather is noticed mostly by its effects on Earth. After a great solar flare in 1959, telegraph operators discovered that currents from the intense aurora borealis was flowing through their systems, causing their telegraph keys to melt and stick in position. During World War II, the new invention of radar failed whenever the space weather activity was high. Comet tails that curved and pointed way from the sun showed that a solar wind, a part of space weather, was always blowing out through the solar system. When police cars in San Francisco tried to talk to their dispatchers, dispatchers in Minneapolis answered (reference: The Northern Light, A. Brekke, A. Egeland, Springer-Verlag, New York. 1983). Plans for revisiting the Hubbell Telescope in orbit and boosting it high enough that it will not fall to Earth are driven by space we
