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The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun. This plasma consists of mostly electrons, protons and alpha particles with energies usually between 1.5 and 10 keV; embedded in the solar-wind plasma is the interplanetary magnetic field. The solar wind varies in density, temperature and speed over time and over solar longitude. Its particles can escape the Sun's gravity because of their high energy, from the high temperature of the corona and magnetic, electrical and electromagnetic phenomena in it.
The solar winds flow outward supersonically at varying speeds depending on their origin reaching up to around one million miles per hour to great distances, filling a region known as the heliosphere, an enormous bubble-like volume surrounded by the interstellar medium. Other related phenomena include the aurora (northern and southern lights), the plasma tails of comets that always point away from the Sun, and geomagnetic storms that can change the direction of magnetic field lines and create strong currents in power grids on Earth.
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Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On the surface of the Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the Sun through space, while planetary wind is the outgassing of light chemical elements from a planet's atmosphere into space. Winds are commonly classified by their spatial scale, their speed, the types of forces that cause them, the regions in which they occur, and their effect. The strongest observed winds on a planet in the Solar System occur on Neptune and Saturn. Winds have various aspects, an important one being its velocity; another the density of the gas involved; another is the energy content or wind energy of a wind.
In meteorology, winds are often referred to according to their strength, and the direction from which the wind is blowing. Short bursts of high speed wind are termed gusts. Strong winds of intermediate duration (around one minute) are termed squalls. Long-duration winds have various names associated with their average strength, such as breeze, gale, storm, and hurricane. Wind occurs on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heating of 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 two main causes of large-scale atmospheric circulation are the differential heating between the equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet (Coriolis effect). Within the tropics, thermal low circulations over terrain and high plateaus can drive monsoon circulations. In coastal areas the sea breeze/land breeze cycle can define local winds; in areas that have variable terrain, mountain and valley breezes can dominate local winds.
Explanation of what is solar wind and how the Earth's magnetic field protects us from it.
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The Nahant Historical Society at Ellingwood Chapel Concert Series presents Solar Winds Quintet with Jill Dreeben, Charlene Bethell, Diane Heffner, Neil Fairborn and Neil Godwin. Video and editing by Tammy Murawski
Life is an illusion
Wich never comes to an end
There’s no death in this domain
Only a neverending breath
I remember me on the shore
Under the blu sky of childhood
Listening at the salty wind
Whispering promises of eternity
Blow me through this space
Far away from this decay
This metal shell's out of control
Lost in your embrace unto the unknown
Life is but a dream
Of a mind which is being dreamed
Divinity becoming matter
Godly love turning to gravity
In a universe so calm
This endless wave of consciousness
Radiates in a moltitude of circles
Touching the outer limits of existence
This solar wind forever blows
Over a deep persistent sea
I’ll walk again on that shore
As i did millions of times
My footprints left forever and ever