... the abrupt boundary between Earth’s magnetic field and the solar wind – the magnetopause – acted much like the top of...also helps preserve our planet from the harmful radiation of the solar wind. Understanding all that is does and how it behaves will ...
... space where they join up with the magnetic field in the solar wind; the stream of electrically charged particles that emanate from the Sun...back, are being struck directly by the ions of the solar wind. But, instead of being repelled and sent back out...
... to a common scale (image courtesy of NASA and Greg Kopp) Solar activity is typically defined in terms of the number of sunspots observed ... from the SOHO/ EIT telescope with the bulk solar wind speed measured by the ACE satellite superimposed. The ...
... the heliosphere; how and where the outward flowing ‘solar wind’ plasma and magnetic field originate in the Sun’s ... nitrogen purging of the instruments right through to launch. The Solar Orbiter mechanical and thermal model in the clean room at the...
...Such disturbances typically occur more frequently during periods of maximum sunspot number and coincide with changes in solar wind conditions causing a distortion of Earth’s magnetosphere. This can occur, for example, when large amounts of plasma are...
... where it will face blistering temperatures of up to 500°C. Solar Orbiter’s mission objective is to collect data on the Sun’s turbulent solar surface, its hot outer atmosphere and changes in the solar wind with a combination of ten in situ and remote...