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Bookmark or Share- Solar Wind on the Moon - NASA ScienceOn the Moon, solar wind is more or less an everyday affair. An invisible electric breeze bathes the sunlit lunar surface, growing calmer for a few Earth days each month as our planet’s magnetosphere provides a partial shield. Lunar scientists know the solar wind as a chemical factory, a landscape artist, and more.
- Solar wind - WikipediaThe solar wind varies in density, temperature and speed over time and over solar latitude and longitude. Its particles can escape the Sun's gravity because of their high energy resulting from the high temperature of the corona, which in turn is a result of the coronal magnetic field.
- Solar Wind | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction CenterThe solar wind continuously flows outward from the Sun and consists mainly of protons and electrons in a state known as a plasma. Solar magnetic field is embedded in the plasma and flows outward with the solar wind. Different regions on the Sun produce solar wind of different speeds and densities.
- Solar wind: What is it and how does it affect Earth? | SpaceSolar wind is composed of charged particles and the sun's magnetic field and is continually released from our star. Explore the phenomenon in more detail here.
- Solar Wind - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)Solar Wind. TRACE UV image of the Sun's corona. The solar wind is created by the outward expansion of plasma (a collection of charged particles) from the Sun's corona (outermost atmosphere). This plasma is continually heated to the point that the Sun's gravity can't hold it down.
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