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You may have only 30 min to prepare for killer solar storms

Storms could knock out the internet and power for hours
Photo: NASA
Photo: NASA

You may only have 30 minutes to prepare before killer solar storms knock out the internet and power for hours, claims a NASA study.

The American space agency has developed a new artificial intelligent-powered system to predict such solar events that will strike Earth.

Even though it is the most advanced system yet, but still it will only be able to warn 30 minutes before the world plunged into complete darkness.

Back in March, NASA announced the development of its computer model called DAGGER, but the research is now gaining public traction.

To monitor connections between the solar wind and geomagnetic disruptions or perturbations that cause havoc on our technology, a team of researchers at Frontier Development Lab is using AI.

The team includes researchers from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the US Department of Energy.

They applied AI’s deep learning method to train computers in recognizing patterns based on previous examples. Researchers also used the tech to identify relationships between solar wind measurements from heliophysics missions.

These missions are probes in space carefully placed throughout space to create a vast array of sensors, which work together to study the sun.

The team tested DAGGER against two geomagnetic storms in August 2011 and March 2015. The system could quickly and accurately forecast the storm’s impacts worldwide in each case.

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