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- Solar Wind bombardment “worse than we thought”, but we *know* particles at 800km/s have No effect on our climate Thu, 14 Jun 18, 2:29amSolar Wind, Earths magnetosphere. Image: NASA The Solar Wind is a torrent of space weather cruising past at 500 — 800 kilometers per second which is around 1.5 million miles per hour or, if you prefer, Mach 2,000.* ...
- New NASA probe will get closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history Fri, 2 Jun 17, 12:32amHumanity has never before touched the sun, but that's about to change. NASA is sending the Parker Solar Probe to the sun in 2018, and will get closer to the star's surface than any other spacecraft in history. They say the...
- The Solar Wind may be changing the surface temperature of the North Atlantic Fri, 20 May 16, 8:03pmCould it be the missing key? The solar wind blasts charged particles, electrons, stuff, towards Earth at 500 km a second — that’s one to two million miles per hour...
- Sailing on the Solar Wind Sat, 17 May 14, 6:05pmGuest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at the Hockey Schtick, I saw a post discussing a new study (paywalled here) of the solar wind as a possible amplifying mechanism for the sun’s effect on climate...
- New paper: Clouds blown by the solar wind Thu, 26 Dec 13, 7:01pmThis paper suggests a terrestrial impact on cloud cover from the interplanetary electric field (IEF) via the global electric circuit. A primer video on the GEC is below. Clouds blown by the solar wind M Voiculescu et al 2013...
- Solar-Wind Chime Lets You Listen to Weather on the Sun Fri, 6 Sep 13, 3:30amDesigner Helen White has created a high-tech wind chime that uses real-time data from a NASA spacecraft to create otherworldly, ambient sounds based on the vibrations of solar wind...
- Researchers Discover Solar Wind Energy Source that Could Revolutionize Nuclear Power Wed, 13 Mar 13, 4:41amSolar Wind image from Shutterstock Using data collected by NASA’s Wind solar probe, scientists have identified an energy source that causes solar winds to heat up and accelerate as they travel further away from their source...
- Solar Update March 2012 Thu, 15 Mar 12, 9:45pmby David Archibald Figure 1: Heliospheric Current Sheet Tilt Angle 1976 – 2012 The heliospheric current sheet tilt angle is currently at 67°. Solar maximum occurs when it reaches 74° – so a little bit further to...
- Solar cycle update: sunspots down, Ap index way down Thu, 5 Jan 12, 9:41amThe NOAA SWPC monthly solar cycle update has been published here, and after a big spike last month, the sunspot count is down again. There’s an even bigger drop though in the Ap geomagnetic index, as seen and discussed...
- Solar Geomagnetic Ap Index Hits Zero Fri, 24 Dec 10, 5:05amThis is something you really don’t expect to see this far into solar cycle 24. But there it is, the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite shows the sun as a cueball: The Ap index being zero, indicates that the sun’s...