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Preparing NZ for space weather that would disable the grid and internet – Stuff.co.nz
Could plunge us into darkness and create an information blackout.
OPINION: About 150 million kilometres away, near the centre of our Solar System, a storm is quietly brewing.
Just like Earth, the Sun has its own weather systems. Its swirling mass of energy is occasionally unleashed in the form of a solar flare or coronal mass ejection, basically a big blast of plasma.
That energy radiates out from the sun and arrives at Earth about a day later. Our planets magnetic field protects us from the worst of it. But big space weather events can knock out electrici…
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