Persons eight to 16 years of age must be secured in a properly adjusted seat belt regardless of seat position in the vehicle. All persons under the age of 18 must be secured by a child safety seat or safety belt when the vehicle they are riding in is driven by a person under the age of 18.
Solar Flares. A solar flare is an enormous explosion in the solar atmosphere. It results in sudden bursts of particle acceleration, heating of plasma to tens of millions of degrees, and the eruption of large amounts of solar mass.
What impact do solar flares have on human activities? Solar flares produce high energy particles and radiation that are dangerous to living organisms. However, at the surface of the Earth we are well protected from the effects of solar flares and other solar activity by the Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere. The most dangerous emissions from flares are energetic charged particles (primarily high-energy protons) and electromagnetic radiation (primarily x-rays).