Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Solar Flares Interrupting GPS Signals


UK researches from Cornell say that the sun is heading into a new period where its solar flares will give off extra radiation and elevated surface activity. This isn't threatening our planet, but it will affect the transmitting between Earth's satellites and many GPS systems.

The interruptions they say should not be dangerous, but will ultimately result in triangulation errors.

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