1. Coronal Holes and Fast Solar Wind

2. How do solar wind particles interact with Pluto's atmosphere?

3. 26 The mass - loss includes the light radiation and solar wind.

4. It would cover solar, wind, bio-energy, tidal and wave energy sectors.

5. Auroras are the result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by solar wind.

6. One is a dust tail, which is blown away by the solar wind.

7. The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust.

8. 7 Solar wind to shield Earth during pole flip New Scientist - May 200

9. 3 Between the bow shock and the magnetopause the solar wind is greatly decelerated.

10. Auroras and the Solar Wind The activity that creates Auroras begins on the sun

11. These transient phenomena are thought to be related to interaction with the solar wind.

12. 17 The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust.

13. 2 Daedalus now points out that the solar wind is an exactly similar phenomenon.

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15. A continuous stream of charged particles , called the solar wind, impinges on the earth's magnetosphere.

16. It also studied the lunar radiation environment, the gamma-active lunar surface, and the solar wind.

17. 15 Solar wind: What you do there are a broom, I can sweep clean for you ... ...

18. 6 When the solar wind is strong the magnetopause retreats to about 50 R J upwind.

19. A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is an explosive outburst of solar wind plasma from the Sun

20. In addition, Jupiter's radio emissions strongly depend on solar wind pressure and, hence, on solar activity.

21. 1 Some theorists even believe that solar wind particles hitting the atmosphere may trigger cloud formation.

22. So this really changes our understanding of solar wind - magnetosphere coupling thealso at the press conference.

23. Since July of 2012, the solar wind has decreased, while the galactic wind has sped up.

24. 30 The moon's lunar soil is chock-full of helium reserves, thanks to the solar wind.

25. 12 Shielded from the buffeting of the solar wind, ions quietly leak out of the atmosphere.

26. The transfer of magnetic energy from the solar wind radically alters the shape of the magnetosphere.

27. But fortunately, most of the solar wind particles have been kept out of the Earth magnetosphere.

28. 25 A continuous stream of charged particles , called the solar wind, impinges on the earth's magnetosphere.

29. 16 What if you could generate your own solar wind with laser and particle beam technology?

30. 11 The final speed of the solar wind depends mainly on the maximum temperature in the corona.

31. 10 But fortunately, most of the solar wind particles have been kept out of the Earth magnetosphere.

32. 16 Many photogenic auroras have been triggered from a solar wind stream that recently passed the Earth.

33. 14 The phenomenon is produced by the action of solar wind on the atmosphere at Earth's Poles.

34. 27 This energy involves tons of charged particles, hurled our way in the so - called solar wind.

35. A multigrid, split-collector Faraday cup mounted on the equator of the spacecraft was used to study the directional intensity of solar wind positive ions and electrons with particular emphasis on the interaction of the solar wind with the Moon.

36. Before the solar/wind revolution, Portugal had generated electricity from hydropower plants on its rivers for decades.

37. 8 Many photogenic auroras have been triggered from a solar wind stream that recently passed the Earth.

38. The planet's magnetosphere, though small enough to fit within Earth, is strong enough to trap solar wind plasma.

39. Inside the magnetosphere, there are relatively dense regions of solar wind particles called the Van Allen radiation belts.

40. 18 "When the solar wind blows out plasma it too causes a bubble: the heliosphere,[www.Sentencedict.com]" he explains.

41. 13 The origin of the solar wind in the hot sun's outer atmosphere, the corona that well - known.

42. Planets require large magnetic fields in order to reduce the ionization of their upper atmosphere by the solar wind.

43. The primary scientific objective of ICE was to study the interaction between the solar wind and a Cometary atmosphere

44. 5 Kulcinski argues that the solar wind has implanted great quantities of hydrogen and helium into the lunar regolith.

45. The lunar surface also contains the light isotope helium- which is implanted in the surface by the solar wind.

46. In addition, high-speed streams in the solar wind unrelated to CMEs, flares or sunspots strongly agitate the Earth's magnetosphere.

47. 19 The lunar surface also contains the light isotope helium- which is implanted in the surface by the solar wind.

48. It is true that the Sun emits helium-3 in the solar wind, and that in principle we could intercept it.

49. An obvious question is whether the surfaces of the asteroids might be rich in helium-3 implanted by the solar wind.

50. 21 An obvious question is whether the surfaces of the asteroids might be rich in helium-3 implanted by the solar wind.

51. 4 The solar wind loses its identity in the interstellar medium at a distance no less than that of the outer planets.

52. 24 The gas pressure eventually overcomes the force of solar gravity and the corona inevitably expands into space as the solar wind .

53. 20 It is true that the Sun emits helium-3 in the solar wind, and that in principle we could intercept it.

54. The detector may be, for example, a solar wind particle detector, an alpha ray detector, a gamma ray detector, or the like.

55. Like the Moon, the surface of Mercury has likely incurred the effects of space weathering processes, including Solar wind and micrometeorite impacts.

56. Like other Kuiper-belt objects (KBOs), Pluto shares features with comets; for example, the solar wind is gradually blowing Pluto's surface into space.

57. 22 Eruptions on the Sun inject high-speed particles into the solar wind, and these can cause geomagnetic disturbances on reaching the Earth.

58. Neptune's bow shock, where the magnetosphere begins to slow the solar wind, occurs at a distance of 34.9 times the radius of the planet.

59. The ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) satellite provides near-real-time data on the solar wind speed, density, temperature, and on the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF).

60. Despite not attaining the intended lunar orbit, the mission met many of its original goals in exploring solar wind, interplanetary plasma, and solar X-rays.

61. In the 1970s, two Helios spacecraft and the Skylab Apollo Telescope Mount provided scientists with significant new data on solar wind and the solar corona.

62. 23 Lab testing is underway on a similar concept that would form a magnetic shield around a ship, protecting it from harmful solar wind particles.

63. The radiation pressure of the solar wind then expelled most of the unaccreted matter, and only those planets with sufficient mass retained their gaseous atmosphere.

64. In this case, the solar wind interacts with the atmosphere or ionosphere of the planet (or surface of the planet, if the planet has no atmosphere).

65. 28 Physics of Solar System Plasmas provides a comprehensive introduction to the plasma physics and magnetohydrodynamics that are needed to study the solar wind and magnetosphere.

66. Any observer present to witness this occurrence would see a massive increase in the speed of the solar wind, but not enough to destroy a planet completely.

67. The flux ropes offered channels for the transport of the solar wind plasma into the magnetosphere and the escape of the magnetospheric plasma into the interplanetary space.

68. The phenomenon is similar to auroras, but where auroras are driven by high-energy particles originating from the solar wind, Airglow is sparked by day-to-day solar radiation

69. IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) is a NASA Medium Explorers mission that studied the global response of the Earth's magnetosphere to changes in the solar wind.

70. 17 Under certain condition of the interplanetary magnetic field, a portion of them can reach the shadow region which is usually considered to be devoid of solar wind protons.

71. 29 Under certain condition of the interplanetary magnetic field, a portion of them can reach the shadow region which is usually considered to be devoid of solar wind protons.

72. The load of plasma from Io greatly expands the size of the Jovian magnetosphere, because the magnetodisk creates an additional internal pressure which balances the pressure of the solar wind.

73. They can eject billions of tons of Coronal material and carry an embedded magnetic field (frozen in flux) that is stronger than the background solar wind interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) strength.

74. Rather than air, the solar wind is a stream of charged particles—a plasma—ejected from the upper atmosphere of the sun at a rate of 400 kilometers per second (890,000 mph).

75. Once the transfer of energy from the solar wind abates , the flow of plasma into the inner magnetosphere slows, and ions are lost from the ring current more rapidly than new ones arrive.

76. Like Coronal Mass Ejections, it is from the corona which the solar wind is expelled at velocities that allow it to escape the gravitational pull of the star and stream outward in all directions.

77. A Van Allen radiation Belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetic field

78. 9 Once the transfer of energy from the solar wind abates , the flow of plasma into the inner magnetosphere slows, and ions are lost from the ring current more rapidly than new ones arrive.

79. By acquiring images every 2 minutes in wavelengths invisible to the human eye, it allowed detailed study of the interaction of the solar wind with the magnetosphere and the magnetosphere's response during a magnetic storm.

80. Collections curated at the NASA Astromaterials Acquisitions and Curation Department include Antarctic Meteorites, Moon Rocks from the Apollo missions, Cometary, Interstellar, and Stratospheric, or Cosmic, dust particles, Solar Wind particles, and samples of space-exposed hardware from mission spacecraft