Monday, September 29, 2008

Sunspots

Well first sunspots are cool dark spots on the sun's surface that are associated with strong magnetic fields. Sunspots make look small but some can be as big as the earth. Sunspots affect the earths ionosphere. The ionosphere is the highest part of our atmosphere. An increase of matter flows out of the sun and into our atmosphere which sometimes affects our satellites and makes background static. When there is a lot of solar activity the earths atmosphere heats up and sometimes melt the satellites that are low to the earth. Some people thought that sunspots had something to do with rainfall and outbreak of disease but it was never ruled true. Sunspots have been shown to mess up a GPS system during a solar storm. A Solar storm is a large burst of charged particles, it is in the ionosphere. Sun spots are almost always seen in pairs. Solar Flares are most likely to occur in sunspots that are rotating like a hurricane. The Number of sunspots on a sun depends on a 11 year cycle. Sunspots are so much darker than the rest of the sun because the temperature of them is so much cool than as the sun. That is all the information i could find about sunspots.

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