The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
And, NASA states in its article Spotless Sun: Blankest Year of the Space Age, “As of Sept. 27, 2008, the sun had been blank, i.e., had no visible sunspots, on 200 days of the year. To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go back to 1954, three years before the launch of Sputnik, when the sun was blank 241 times."
The NASA article shows a picture, courtesy of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), of the Sun on September 27, 2008, with absolutely no sunspot activity—a spotless day on the Sun.
In fact, David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, states, "Sunspot counts are at a 50-year low. We're experiencing a deep minimum of the solar cycle." [NASA]
Hathaway adds, "This is the quietest sun we've seen in almost a century.”
The progress of solar minimum can be monitored with a new "Spotless Days Counter" on SpaceWeather.com.
The website states, “Daily updated totals tell you how many spotless days there have been in a row, in this year, and in the entire solar cycle.”
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