NASA misssion to unravel sun's threat to earth

London: NASA is planning to launch a mission to unravel the sun's interior mechanisms on February 9 from Space Launch Complex-41, Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida. The mission will help U.S. space agency to predict solar storms that cause chaos on Earth.

NASA is all set for a new ambitious mission to unravel the sun's interior mechanisms. According to the space agency, after its launch, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will spend five years in orbit trying to discover how such solar phenomena are created. 

Scientists involved in this mission, think that they will be able to produce reliable forecasts of space weather and provide advance warnings of any threat, reports The Sunday Times. Since long, scientists have been saying that solar disturbances on the sun can trigger dangerous x-rays, charged particles and magnetic fields that can disrupt power supplies, communication signals and aircraft navigation systems on Earth.