GOOD: NASA to Test Upgraded Earth Models for Solar Storm Threat.

NASA relies on spacecraft to help keep watch for solar storms erupting on the sun. But on the ground, the space agency’s Solar Shield project aims to improve computer simulations that predict if those solar storms will create electrical hazards for power plants and transmission lines.

The Solar Shield project’s research efforts have focused on comparing computer simulation predictions with actual observations from ground stations. At the start of 2016, NASA announced it had added six new test sites around the United States to provide real-world data for comparison with the simulations. But researchers behind Solar Shield also plans to upgrade the computer models that simulate the physics behind the Earth’s geomagnetic processes.

Faster, please.