The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the Sun's outermost atmospheric layer, the corona. This plasma mostly consists of electrons...
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SolarWinds Corporation is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology...
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twice as much new electricity as coal. Along with onshore wind power, utility-scale solar is the source with the cheapest levelised cost of electricity...
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Sun (redirect from Solar diameter)
the solar wind, defined as where the coronal plasma's Alfvén speed and the large-scale solar wind speed are equal. During the flyby, Parker Solar Probe...
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The Parker Solar Probe (PSP; previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+) is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 with the mission of making...
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Hybrid power (redirect from Solar-wind hybrid turbine)
generation together, usually using renewable technologies such as solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind turbines. Hybrid systems provide a high level of energy security...
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solar wind is halted, resulting in the heliopause. This is the boundary of the Solar System to interstellar space. The outermost region of the Solar System...
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Solar phenomena are natural phenomena which occur within the atmosphere of the Sun. They take many forms, including solar wind, radio wave flux, solar...
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Heliosphere (section Solar wind)
"inflated" by plasma originating from the Sun, known as the solar wind. Outside the heliosphere, this solar plasma gives way to the interstellar plasma permeating...
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Advanced Composition Explorer (section Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer (SWICS) and Solar Wind Ion Mass Spectrometer (SWIMS))
exploration mission to study matter comprising energetic particles from the solar wind, the interplanetary medium, and other sources. Real-time data from ACE...
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Earth's magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. Major disturbances result from enhancements in the speed of the solar wind from coronal holes and coronal mass...
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regions, wind power generation is higher in nighttime, and in winter when solar power output is low. For this reason, combinations of wind and solar power...
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electromagnetic energy, neutrinos and by the ejection of matter with the solar wind. It is expelling about (2–3)×10−14 M☉/year. The mass loss rate will increase...
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Solar wind turbulence refers to the complex, chaotic fluid motions and magnetic field fluctuations observed in the solar wind plasma as it flows outward...
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(NASA) contribution. Solar Orbiter, designed to obtain detailed measurements of the inner heliosphere and the nascent solar wind, will also perform close...
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Solar Winds: The Escape and its sequel Solar Winds: Galaxy (also known as Solar Winds II: Universe) are top-down, space-themed role-playing action games...
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Wind Farm (TCWF)". clients1.3gs.co.za. Retrieved 6 November 2018. "Bid Window 3 Preferred Bidders' announcement - 4 November 2013" (PDF). "Khi Solar One"...
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Geospace Science (GGS) Wind satellite is a NASA science spacecraft designed to study radio waves and plasma that occur in the solar wind and in the Earth's...
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mission, it is a main source of near-real-time solar data for space weather prediction. Along with Aditya-L1, Wind, Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), and...
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land surfaces and lasting a few hours, to global winds resulting from the difference in absorption of solar energy between the climate zones on Earth. The...
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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 magnetosphere...
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ionosphere. In the Earth's magnetosphere, the currents are driven by the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) and by bulk motions of plasma...
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below the corona that lead to solar eruptions. To study space weather, and the origin, composition and dynamics of solar wind. The mission was conceptualised...
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Coronal hole (category Solar phenomena)
average solar wind measured in interplanetary space. Streams of fast solar wind originating from coronal holes can interact with slow solar wind streams...
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Thermosphere (section Solar wind)
low solar activity, Geophy. Res. Lett., 4, 33, 1977 Prölss, G.W., Density perturbations in the upper atmosphere caused by dissipation of solar wind energy...
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Geomagnetic storm (redirect from Geomagnetic solar storm)
Earth's magnetosphere caused by a solar wind shock wave. The disturbance that drives the magnetic storm may be a solar coronal mass ejection (CME) or (much...
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SMILE (spacecraft) (redirect from Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer)
Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) is a planned joint venture mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy...
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Renewable energy in the United States (redirect from Solar Energy Technology Program)
array of technologies, including solar photovoltaics, solar thermal power plants and heating/cooling systems, wind farms, hydroelectricity, geothermal...
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The magnetosphere of Jupiter is the cavity created in the solar wind by Jupiter's magnetic field. Extending up to seven million kilometers in the Sun's...
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the solar wind) or a nearby star. Planets having active magnetospheres, like the Earth, are capable of mitigating or blocking the effects of solar radiation...
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