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    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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    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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    "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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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