A Massive Solar Storm Could Keep Us Grounded On Earth For A Decade

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Sep 15, 2011, 5:07:23 PM9/15/11

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A Massive Solar Storm Could Keep Us Grounded On Earth For A Decade
It's decently likely that, sometime in the future, a major solar storm will hit Earth, wreaking havoc on our infrastructure and crippling our satellites. But there's a more long-term danger: space could become too dangerously radioactive to stay there. And some new research indicates that we could face a situation that keeps us from exploring space, within our lifetimes. While we haven't sent humans beyond low-Earth orbit in close to forty years, we've carved out quite a niche for ourselves in the area of space directly around our planet. The International Space Station provides a constant human presence in space, and we've built up a massive network of satellites that are crucial to our communications infrastructure, not to mention navigation, scientific research, weather monitoring, and a bunch of other things.