The changes in the earth seem to have nothing to do with the universe.

In fact, the Earth's atmospheric activity is very closely related to solar activity, especially the number of sunspots.

In the orbit of Venus, Homo sapiens deployed 12 solar activity monitoring satellites.

At this time, a large number of sunspots on the surface of the Sun have been detected.

The headquarters of the Space Division is located on the island of Ceylon.

At this time, in the solar monitoring office under him, Huang Xiancai, the head of the room, looked at the latest monitoring report, and a trace of solemnity appeared on his face: "Is it the peak of solar activity again?" ”

Researcher Wu Sigong didn't pay much attention: "It's been 14 years since the last peak of solar activity, and now it's just 11 years ago, and solar activity is based on an 11-year cycle. ”

"Lao Wu, what did you find over there at the Meteorological Institute?"

Wu Sigong replied with a smile: "This year, the heat and increase in the sun's radiation to the earth, but this matter is mixed. ”

"The climate simulations are out?" Huang Xiancai seems to know a lot about the situation at the Institute of Meteorology.

"Yes, it was just updated yesterday, and the temperature will be higher in the middle and low latitudes this year." Wu Sigong spread his hands.

"It seems that the situation is not optimistic!" Huang Xiancai has already thought of the problem.

It appears that the arrival of the peak of solar cycle activity has led to an increase in the amount of solar radiation heat received by the Earth, which can delay global cooling.

But in reality, the situation is not as simple as it seems.

For example, in human history, there have been decades of Xiaoice periods, and it is obvious that during this Xiaoice period, there will definitely be a peak of solar activity, but this has not caused the Xiaoice to fade.

In addition, in the long geological period, there have also been ice ages that can last for hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of millions of years.

Obviously, the solar cycle is not the core factor that determines the occurrence of ice ages.

Huang Xiancai used his authority to review the latest simulation results of the Climate Research Institute, and after reading more than a dozen reports, he has one adjective for atmospheric climate activity in the next few years: extreme.

The tropics are hotter, the cold zones are colder, and the cold and hot alternate in between, mixed with fickleness.

The Institute of Ocean Currents, which specializes in the study of the North Atlantic Warm Current, has also concluded that a sudden increase in temperature in a short period of time will lead to further chaos in a series of ocean currents such as the North Atlantic Warm Current.

Just when Huang Xiancai was thinking about how to report the recent sunspots.

A researcher hurriedly walked in: "Room Director, Researcher Wu, just now a solar flare erupted, and our T7 satellite in the orbit of Venus was seriously disturbed. ”

"Solar flares? What level? Wu Sigong hurriedly asked.

"At least x2 level."

Huang Xiancai was taken aback: "Have you notified other departments?" ”

"I let you know as soon as I could."

"That's good." Huang Xiancai breathed a sigh of relief.

But Wu Sigong's expression showed little sign of relaxation: "X-class solar flare erupted, this is a sign that solar activity has entered the peak, and in the next period of time, there will definitely be no fewer flares." ”

"The satellites designed by the company are relatively solid, and the problem should not be big, and many large satellites have artificial magnetic field systems that can resist the solar wind." Huang Xiancai is still very confident in the company's technology and products.

Wu Sigong shook his head: "I'm not worried about the company's satellites, I'm worried about those half buckets of water." ”

"Over there?" Hearing this, Huang Xiancai also reacted.

"Especially Musk's Starlink satellites, do you think those shoddy small communication satellites can withstand the dense solar wind?" Uskon is not optimistic about Starlink satellites.

At this time, the entire headquarters of the Space Division became very busy.

This time, the solar storm ejected by the eruption of the solar flare happened to be facing the direction of the Earth, and part of the light wave had already reached the Earth-Moon system.

A Homo sapiens space station in a mid-orbital orbit.

At this time, 36 superconducting magnetic field generators have been activated, supplying a large part of the electrical energy inside the entire space station to the magnetic field generators.

Although it is not as strong as the Earth's magnetic field, it is better to be short and concise, after all, the radius of the Homo sapiens space station is only 500 meters.

Inside the core module of the space station.

The person in charge, Bai Muxi, looked at the feedback data from the 12 surrounding escort satellites, turned his head and ordered: "Takahashi, prepare to start the backup communication module." ”

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Toru Takahashi, the administrator of communication equipment, nodded: "Roger." ”

The next second.

Woowoo......

Terrible sirens rang out throughout the station.

The invisible solar storm, carrying a large number of helium-3 particles, high-energy neutrons and high-energy rays, has arrived at the Homo sapiens space station.

The charged particles are blocked by the magnetic field shield and there is a noticeable trajectory shift.

The uncharged high-energy neutrons and high-energy rays drove straight into the space station and directly hit the heavy protective layer and radiation reflection layer of the space station.

Even with such strong protection, there are still a small number of high-energy neutrons that can penetrate the protective layer and enter part of the chamber.

Fortunately, all the astronauts were wearing heavy spacesuits and bio-based armor, and these high-energy neutrons did not affect the astronauts.

However, a small number of devices are not immune.

Tetsuichi Takahashi quickly checked the operation of the communication modules, and found that three of the communication modules were malfunctioning, so he immediately activated the backup communication module.

"Earth Headquarters Urgent Announcement, All Agencies Stationed in Outer Space Please Report the Current Situation in accordance with the Prescribed Procedures......"

As soon as the communication module returned to normal, they received a broadcast from the Earth headquarters.

"Takahashi, follow the procedure to return to headquarters." Bai Mu Rhino commanded.

“ok。”

Bai Mu Rhino hurriedly took the others to conduct a comprehensive physical examination of the space station, first identify the faulty module, and then prepare for repair.

And in low-earth orbit the new ISS.

Although due to the protection of the Earth's magnetic field, the intensity of the solar storm here is less than one-tenth that of the Homo sapiens space station.

The problem is that the protection capability of the Earth-linked space station is not one-tenth that of the Homo sapiens space station.

After all, the wealthy Homo sapiens company can equip the space station with a heavy lead plate composite layer, and the ground link is too cost-effective to waste the payload on the lead plate.

Therefore, the ground connection space station, which is not very well defended, was directly paralyzed by the solar storm and paralyzed a quarter of the equipment.

Inside the Earth-linked space station, eight astronauts were caught off guard in the face of a sudden solar storm.

In particular, the solar panel power supply module, in this solar storm, nearly half of the solar panels failed.

As the captain of the Earth Union space station, Zhang Ming immediately decided: "Immediately report our situation to the Earth Headquarters, and let them quickly formulate an emergency plan." ”

Correspondent Owen didn't dare to slack off, and quickly activated the communication equipment, and then his face changed:

"Damn! The communication system is down ......"

"Start the standby." Zhang Ming's palms were sweating.

Owen, who was immersed in work, also broke out in cold sweat on his forehead, and after a few minutes of trying, he finally found a backup communication device that could be used.

He felt a little dry lips, and subconsciously licked his lips: "Huhu...... Connected! ”

Soon the ground union also responded.

For the space station to be affected by the solar storm, the Earth Federation is now also in a tangle, and many of the association's executives hope that the space station can stick to it, after all, this is a project with an investment of tens of billions of dollars.