Researchers say a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years.
It's official: Solar minimum has arrived.
Sunspots have all but vanished.
Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet.
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Like the quiet before a storm.
That was a solar maximum.
The Space Age was just beginning: Sputnik was launched in Oct.
1957 and Explorer 1 (the first US satellite) in Jan. 1958. In 1958 you couldn't tell that a solar storm was underway by looking at the bars on your cell phone; cell phones didn't exist. Even so, people knew something big was happening when Northern Lights were sighted three times in Mexico. A similar maximum now would be noticed by its effect on cell phones, GPS, weather satellites and many other modern technologies.
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