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Hazards Of Severe Space Weather Revealed Monday, January 12, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> General Technology   
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A NASA-funded study describes how extreme solar eruptions could have severe consequences for communications, power grids and other technology on Earth. The National Academy of Sciences in Washington conducted the study. The resulting report provides some of the first clear economic data that effectively quantifies today's risk of extreme conditions in space driven by magnetic activity on the sun and disturbances in the near-Earth environment. (source: nasascience.nasa.gov)
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