Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy known to impact electric power grids, navigation signals, radio communications and can pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts.
Intense currents driven by space weather can have severe impacts, damaging or destroying critical infrastructure, interrupting the internet and other communications and leading to power outages. The federal government is already making plans to prepare for and respond to the next big solar storm.
The y-axis indicates how high or low (from 0 to 255 (pre 1.18) or -64 to 320 (from 1.18), with 63 being sea level) the player is i.e., the elevation, The unit length of the three axes equals the side of one block. And, in terms of real-world measurement, one block equals 1 cubic meter.
(Y): The Y coordinate represents a distance along the vertical plane up or down from the origin, just like in real-world altitude values. A distance up from the origin is represented by a positive Y value, (+Y). A distance down from the origin is represented by a negative Y value, (-Y).