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10 May – A series of solar storms and intense solar flares impact the Earth, creating aurorae at more southerly and northerly latitudes than usual. [263] 13 May – OpenAI reveals GPT-4o, its latest AI model, featuring improved multimodal capabilities in real time. [264] [265] 15 May
Another concern during the solar storm events was the increased drag created on satellites in low-Earth orbit. During a major geomagnetic storm, satellite operators lose the ability to predict the ...
As a warming Earth simmered into worrisome new territory this week, scientists said the unofficial records being set for average planetary temperature were a clear sign of how pollutants released ...
These events impact Earth's upper atmosphere and can occasionally cause communications blackouts. Superflares, by contrast, are rare, higher-energy outbursts – potentially much more powerful ...
The United in Science 2022 report is published by the WMO, summarizing latest climate science-related updates and assessing recent climate change mitigation progress as "going in the wrong direction". [577] [578] 14 September A new deep learning technique enables year-round measurements of sea ice thickness in the Arctic. [579] [580]
5th century BC: The earliest documented mention of a spherical Earth comes from the Greeks in the 5th century BC. [31] It is known that the Indians modeled the Earth as spherical by 300 BC [32] 460 BC: Empedocles describes thermal expansion. [33] Late 5th century BC: Antiphon discovers the method of exhaustion, foreshadowing the concept of a limit.
It will be very difficult to observe from Earth, because the elongation of Venus and Jupiter from the Sun at this time will be only 7 degrees. This event will be the first occultation of a planet by another since January 3, 1818; however, the next will occur less than two years later, on July 15, 2067. [30] [31] 2066 Triple conjunction Jupiter ...
Past events include the end of the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse, [3] Younger Dryas, [4] Dansgaard–Oeschger events, Heinrich events and possibly also the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum. [5] The term is also used within the context of climate change to describe sudden climate change that is detectable over the time-scale of a human ...