Solar System Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which focuses on objects in the Solar System. The journal is published by Nauka through Springer...
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Planck Institute for Solar System Research (abbreviation: MPS; German: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung) is a research institute in astronomy...
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The Solar System, named after Sol, the Latin name for the Sun, is the planetary system of the Sun and the celestial objects that orbit it. It formed about...
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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX): FHNW, Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of...
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There is evidence that the formation of the Solar System began about 4.6 billion years ago with the gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular...
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Space-based solar power (SBSP or SSP) is the concept of collecting solar power in outer space with solar power satellites (SPS) and distributing it to...
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The stability of the Solar System is a subject of much inquiry in astronomy. Though the planets have historically been stable as observed, and will be...
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ejections, solar particle events, and other eruptive solar phenomena. The occurrence of solar flares varies with the 11-year solar cycle. Solar flares are...
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This article includes a list of the most massive known objects of the Solar System and partial lists of smaller objects by observed mean radius. These lists...
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concentrated solar power. Solar panels use the photovoltaic effect to convert light into an electric current. Concentrated solar power systems use lenses...
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David H. Hathaway, "The Solar Cycle", Living Reviews in Solar Physics, March 2010, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany...
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is a list of most likely gravitationally rounded objects (GRO) of the Solar System, which are objects that have a rounded, ellipsoidal shape due to their...
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Earth flybys. Planned and proposed missions are in the List of proposed Solar System probes. Colour key: † means "tentatively identified", as classified by...
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This is a list of the tallest mountains in the Solar System. This list includes peaks on all celestial bodies where significant mountains have been detected...
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Solar System belts are asteroid and comet belts that orbit the Sun in the Solar System in interplanetary space. The Solar System belts' size and placement...
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craters on various worlds of the Solar System. For a full list of named craters, see List of craters in the Solar System. The ratio column compares the...
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A photovoltaic system, also called a PV system or solar power system, is an electric power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics...
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or parabolic arrays of solar mirrors used to achieve a substantially concentrated reflection factor for solar energy systems. See article "Heliostat"...
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the winter and reject solar heat in the summer. This is called passive solar design because, unlike active solar heating systems, it does not involve the...
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wafer-based solar cells, leading to a significant price drop per Watt peak capacity. There are many research groups around the world actively researching different...
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Max Planck Society (redirect from Research Materials: Max Planck Society Archive)
School for Solar System Science at the University of Göttingen hosted by MPI for Solar System Research International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy...
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List of exceptional asteroids (redirect from List of asteroids in our Solar System)
The following is a collection of lists of asteroids of the Solar System that are exceptional in some way, such as their size or orbit. For the purposes...
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Shockley-Queisser limit Solar cell research Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (journal) Solar module quality assurance Solar roof Solar shingles Solar tracker Spectrophotometry...
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usually arranged in groups called arrays or systems. A photovoltaic system consists of one or more solar panels, an inverter that converts DC electricity...
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suggested signs of life in the Venera images in an article published in Solar System Research. According to Ksanfomaliti, certain objects resembled a "disk",...
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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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body of research in the fields of planetary science, astronomy, and astrobiology. Earth is unique among the rocky planets in the Solar System in having...
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capacity per person. There were 122 million solar hot water systems in operation at the end of 2022. Records of solar collectors in the United States date to...
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Standard gravitational parameter (section Solar system)
. {\displaystyle \mu =G(M+m)\approx GM.} For several objects in the Solar System, the value of μ is known to greater accuracy than either G or M. The...
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Karachi, Pakistan) is director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), director of the Sun-Heliosphere Department of MPS, a scientific...
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