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The radiation risk posed by solar flares and CMEs is one of the major concerns in discussions of manned missions to Mars or to the moon. Some kind of physical or magnetic shielding would be required to protect the astronauts. Originally it was thought that astronauts would have two hours time to get into shelter, but based on the January 20, 2005 event, they may have as little as 15 minutes to do so.
Solar flares and associated Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) strongly influence our local space weather. They produce streams of highly energetic particles in the solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere that can present radiation hazards to spacecraft and astronauts. The soft X-ray flux of X class flares increases the ionisation of the upper atmosphere, which can interfere with short-wave radio communication, and can increase the drag on low orbiting satellites, leading to orbital decay. Energetic particles in the magnetosphere contribute to the aurora borealis and aurora australis.
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Solar, Flame Fractals
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fractal flame, solar, fractal, solar flare
Picture of a solar flare fractal.
© William
Dudziak
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On 2009/01/10, Will said:
Feel free to post any comments or questions here. I will reply as soon as I am able.
Thanks for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you. -- Will.
On 2008/10/23, ada said:
what do you use to make these.......i use apophysis 2 but mine have alot of stray particles around the fractal and its hard to get good colors.
On 2008/10/23, will said:
yea, i used apophysis 2 as well. You just have to play around a bit, and make sure you set the sampling (i think thats what its called) really high on the output to get rid of the graininess. it takes a while to render - this one took about 24 hrs to render, but its awesome when its done.
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