Solar Flares Affect GPS (IMAGE)

Cornell University

Solar Flares Affect GPS

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Graduate student Alessandro Cerruti, left, and Professor Paul Kintner work on the antenna on the roof of Phillips Hall. They have found that the kinds of large solar flares expected in five years or so could produce massive outages of all GPS receivers on the day side of the Earth.

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Robert Barker/Cornell University Photography

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