Friday, November 4, 2011

Why nasa telescope keep taking pictures of sun every 4times per day?

Consider this. A solar flare can cause Aura Borealas and other electrical desurbances. Every satilite which orbits the earth is subject to being fried if a solar flare of sufficient magnitude strikes while it is in operation. That is military and Civilian satilites. We have become too dependant on these satilites day to day for that to not be a priority. GPS operates on 24 earth centric satilities. This is important to both the military and civilian sectors. If one of those satilites goes out without a backup, your OnStar will not work. Television from around the world gets around the world via satilite. The Internet is carried, in part, via satilite transmissions. I know this because I used to log into one satilite when I was configuring computers while I worked for Compaq for one of our customers. Our astranauts lives depend on being protected from solar flares which these satilites look for. When a solar flare is shot from the sun on a collision course for the International Space station, our people inside that station have less than 8 minutes to stop what they are doing and get to the protected areas of the station or risk death. Is this a good enough set of reasons to look at the sun? I think so.

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