As Earth’s atmosphere warms, satellites risk collision 2023
Satellites in orbit are essential to the day-to-day operation of the planet, but they are also the most vulnerable, and not due to human activity. Rather, it is the Sun.
As a result of increased solar activity and several geomagnetic disturbances, the Earth's atmosphere is heating up. According to a report on spaceweather.com, solar geomagnetic storms have injected several terawatts of energy into Earth's upper atmosphere, causing the temperature to rise.
A geomagnetic storm is a disruption in the Earth's magnetic field brought on by the entrance of charged particles from a CME. When these particles interact with the Earth's magnetic field, they can cause a variety of electromagnetic and electrical disturbances. CMEs, or Coronal Mass Ejections, are immense explosions of plasma and m...