Sentences with phrase «solar wind particles flow»

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At a certain distance from the sun, though, that plasma escapes the corona and streams through the solar system as the solar wind, a constant flow of charged particles that pummels the planets, including Earth (SN Online: 8/18/17).

These may help astronomers unravel what drives the solar wind, the stream of charged particles that flows from the sun and permeates the solar system.

In a complementary paper, astrophysicist John Connerney of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues look at how Jupiter's magnetic field interacts with the solar wind, a stream of charged particles flowing from the sun.

David Thomson, Carol Mclennan and Louis Lanzerotti of AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, claim that the flow of particles in the solar wind shows periodic variations on timescales of a few minutes, which exactly match the periods of vibrations of the Sun's core (Nature, vol 376, p 139).

He explained his research, analyzing how the solar wind — the continuous flow of particles exhaled by the sun — blows gases from Pluto's surface like seeds from a dandelion.

Massive changes take place in the magnetic field composition in the area between the solar wind — the stream of energetic particles flowing from the sun — and Earth's magnetic field and this triggers powerful energy transfers.

Measurements of the space environment round it show that the water flowing out from the comet's nucleus forms a prominent atmosphere which interacts with the constant flow of ionised particles from the sun, the so - called solar wind.

The off - kilter tumbling of the magnetic bubble around Uranus may regularly let a barrage of charged particles from the solar wind flow in

The space station Skylab found that the ever - changing corona bleeds off into the solar wind, a flow of charged particles that reaches out to Earth and beyond.

Sunspot activity, which ebbs and flows on an 11 - year cycle, decreases the cosmic ray flux by periodically increasing the solar wind — a stream of charged particles emitted by the sun.

1,000,000 Speed, in miles per hour, of the solar wind, a stream of charged particles flowing from the sun in all directions.

Earth is always surrounded by a bubble of magnetism called the magnetosphere, which protects us from the bulk of the solar wind, a stream of high - energy particles constantly flowing from the sun.

Unlike Earth, the moon has no enveloping magnetic field to fend off the constant flow of charged particles that make up the solar wind.

solar wind A flow of charged particles (including atomic nuclei) that have been ejected from the surface of the star, such as our sun.

With the aim of improving our understanding of the ways in which the Sun influences its environment, the Solar Observer will examine how the Sun generates and propels the flow of charged particles that form the solar wind in which the planets are bathed and which can wreak havoc on power grids on Earth and satellites in oSolar Observer will examine how the Sun generates and propels the flow of charged particles that form the solar wind in which the planets are bathed and which can wreak havoc on power grids on Earth and satellites in osolar wind in which the planets are bathed and which can wreak havoc on power grids on Earth and satellites in orbit.

The solar wind is the continuous stream of charged and energetic particles flowing out from the Sun, which can affect spacecraft.

The spacecraft will look at the corona — the superheated outer atmosphere of the sun — to learn more about how energy flows through the sun, the structure of the solar wind, and how energetic particles are accelerated and transported.

The Earth's magnetic field is our first line of defence against the permanent flow of particles coming from the Sun: the solar wind.

The solar wind is a flux of charged particles that flows at supersonic velocity from the Sun's outer atmosphere (the corona) and carries with it the solar magnetic field.

The particles there flow at about 336 kilometres a second, as opposed to 550 kilometres a second in the fast solar wind produced closer to the sun's poles.

The postulated effects are from increased solar ultraviolet output, affecting upper atmosphere chemistry, and from stronger solar wind — the continuous flow of charged particles emanating from the sun that bathes the whole solar system.

It is not the Earth's magnetic field that deflects cosmic rays, but the solar field associated with the solar wind and SEP (charged particles) that flow out through the whole solar system.