How Can Solar Flares Affect Our Satellites?

The solar wind is a flurry of charged high energy particles ejected constantly from the sun. Most are battered harmlessly away by the planet's magnetic field, shielding us and our 8000 satellites. But sometimes the sun erupts something far more forceful and far more dangerous which can wipe out a satellite in just seconds. Here to explain this threat and what we can do about it is form a NASA intern and guide at the Griffith Observatory in California, Rosemary Williams.