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    The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun, called the corona. This plasma mostly consists of electrons...
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    The Solar Wind Spectrometer was a scientific package that flew on the Apollo 12 and Apollo 15 missions to the surface of the Moon. The goal was to characterise...
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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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    "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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    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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    onshore wind, in most countries, the cheapest levelised cost of electricity for new installations is utility-scale solar. Almost half the solar power installed...
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    the solar wind defined as where the coronal plasma's Alfvén speed and the large-scale solar wind speed are equal. The probe measured the solar wind plasma...
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    The Solar Wind Composition Experiment (SWC) was an experiment deployed on the Moon during the Apollo program (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15 and 16). The aim was...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    the 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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    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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    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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    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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    (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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    mission, it is a main source of near-real-time solar data for space weather prediction. Along with Wind, Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), and Deep...
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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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  • Solar wind is a stellar phenomenon of the Sun Solar wind may also refer to: Stellar wind, gas ejected from the atmosphere of stars Solar Winds, a computer...
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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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    SolarWinds's infrastructure since at least as early as 2017. SolarWinds had been advising customers to disable antivirus tools before installing SolarWinds...
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    the influence of the solar wind, as did Voyager 1 in 2012. Although the Voyagers have moved beyond the influence of the solar wind, they still have a long...
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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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    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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  • transient disturbance in the solar wind Solar cycle, an 11-year cycle of sunspot activity Solar cycle 25, the current cycle Solar prominence, a plasma and...
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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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    ionosphere. In the Earth's magnetosphere, the currents are driven by the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field and by bulk motions of plasma through...
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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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    The goal of SIDE was to study any potential lunar ionosphere and the solar wind. The idea of landing a positive ion detector on the Moon was first proposed...
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