Deep Solar Minimum...???

[Jer95]

What is wrong with the sun? Why this solar minimum is known as the deepest solar minimum in 100 years? For 210 days this year the sun is blank... and its blank right now! 2008 was the blankest year of the space age...

sigh... today is another blank sun

 

[Jarvitä]

"Deepest in 100 years" as in "It was deeper 100 years ago". We're not going to die just yet.

 

[Zatnikitelman]

So it might mean Atlanta gets more snow. That it's a tad cooler (think maunder minimum)
The people pulled through the little ice age even without heaters, cars, advanced hydrocarbon technology etc. just fine.

 

[Artlav]

Maybe seeing how we overheat the Earth with pollution, the Sun decided to cool down a little to compensate? Damn Gaia theory.

 

[RisingFury]

The calm before the storm?

 

[SiberianTiger]

http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=7636

05-10-2009 Coronas-Photon will Watch the Sun Continuously for 20 Days

Telescopes of CORONAS-PHOTON satellite have been switched into a new mode today to begin continuous observation of the Sun which is to last for 20 days. Telescope will make photos of the Sun each 5 min, and are scheduled to be turned off on Oct. 23 at 14:30 Moscow time.

Unique series of continous data will be acquired on the ground. These are to be used by the scientists to study generation of active areas and evolution of blasts in the solar atmosphere within Sun`s complete revolution around its axis. TESIS onboard CORONAS-PHOTON is expected to send about 23000 new images of the Sun.

Based on the information of FIAN

Hope a fishing like this may be successful.

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So it might mean Atlanta gets more snow. That it's a tad cooler (think maunder minimum)
The people pulled through the little ice age even without heaters, cars, advanced hydrocarbon technology etc. just fine.

It's about time to think about mammoth ranching again, then.

 

[Jer95]

The sun is still blank...

Any developing sunspots?

Soon this year will have more spotless days than last year

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm

 

[Jer95]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A 12-year low in solar "irradiance": Careful measurements by several NASA spacecraft show that the sun's brightness has dropped by 0.02% at visible wavelengths and 6% at extreme UV wavelengths since the solar minimum of 1996. The changes so far are not enough to reverse the course of global warming, but there are some other significant side-effects: Earth's upper atmosphere is heated less by the sun and it is therefore less "puffed up." Satellites in low Earth orbit experience less atmospheric drag, extending their operational lifetimes. Unfortunately, space junk also remains longer in Earth orbit, increasing hazards to spacecraft and satellites.[/FONT]

is that true??? The sun is getting dimmer???

 

[Linguofreak]

is that true??? The sun is getting dimmer???

By 0.02%, yes. That really isn't much at all. It's 2% of a percent. And that's just a comparison between minimums. The natural variation between minimum and maximum is apparently around 0.1%, which is 5 times as great, and happens regularly without disaster.

 

[Killer Toilet]

I wouldn't worry about it that much.

5 billion years from now, if I am somehow still alive, then I'll worry.

 

[Jer95]

On the bottom left of the Continuum, is that the ghost of sunspot 1026??

For comparison on Sep. 21, their latitudes are the same

 

[JamesG]

I'm sure Algore will blame it on all that rocket exhaust and spacecraft debris we've been polluting the solar system with.
"We're killing the sun, blah blah blah".

 

[Andy44]

Oh noes! Manbearpig has hijacked the sun!

 

[Jer95]

Finally... A new sunspot!!

 

[Jer95]

SOLAR MINIMUM: The sun is in the pits of a very deep solar minimum. Many researchers thought the sunspot cycle had hit bottom in 2008 when the sun was blank 73% of the time. Not so. 2009 is on the verge of going even lower. So far this year, the sun has been blank 75% of the time, and only a serious outbreak of sunspots over the next few weeks will prevent 2009 from becoming the quietest year in a century. Solar minimum continues.

BTW: No cosmic rays in orbiter??