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AN expert has warned that billions of extra-terrestrial rays and particles could shower the earth, threatening the safety of planes and passengers. Mike Lockwood, professor of space environment physics, has claimed that dramatic changes in solar activity could raise the risk of cancerous damage to the cells of those on board planes flying over the Poles. The Reading University professor says that people who regularly take long-haul flights could be at particular risk from solar radiation. In the future, those flying to Canada or the West Coast of the US at least two or three times a year should consider undergoing screening for potentially cancerous damage, he has said. His warning centres
on changes in activity in the sun's turbulent magnetic field.
"The signs are that we are coming out of a decade-long period of
high activity, during which the sun was covered in dozens of dark
spots and spat vast flares and balls of superheated gas the size of
planets," he says. In between this and the coming quiet period is
a danger zone, during which more hazardous rays created by exploding
stars and dangerous particles — made by clouds of gas spewed out by
the sun — will hurtle towards the earth. —
ANI
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