On Wednesday, March 5, a class M flare was recorded on the Sun. This was reported by the Institute of Applied Geophysics.
The class M1.7 flare, which lasted 9 minutes, was recorded at 14:50 Moscow time. It occurred in sunspot group 4016 (S25E43).
Depending on the strength of X-ray radiation, solar flares are classified into five levels: A, B, C, M, and X.
The weakest level, A0.0, corresponds to radiation in Earth's orbit at 10 nW per square meter. When moving to the next level, the radiation power increases by 10 times.
Flares are often accompanied by emissions of solar plasma, which, upon reaching Earth, can cause magnetic storms.
Earlier, www1.ru reported that satellites located at the Lagrange point L1, located 1.5 million kilometers from Earth towards the Sun, did not detect signs of the expected arrival of the plasma cloud formed as a result of the flare that occurred on March 2.
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