Solar Wind

[Light Storm]

"Solar Wind"

I became interested in reading more about comets and learned the tail of a comet is always pointed away from the comet. Interested in learning more about why, I discovered an interesting story. Eugene Parker created this crazy idea that the sun created a solar storm of particles through out the solar system he termed as "Solar Wind". His crazy ideas included outer coronal atmospheres that escaped the suns atmosphere supersonically into interstellar space. Opposition to Parker's hypothesis solar wind was strong, and his papers on the subject where rejected from notable scientific publication.

5 years later Luna 1 directly observed solar wind validating Parkers hypothesis but also measuring it being much stronger then even Parker had originally given it credit. It's this same Solar Wind that constantly pushes those tails away from the sun, but constantly bombards the entire solar system with a stream of charged particles mostly consists of electrons and protons with energies between 1.5 and 10 keV.

I could not find any studies or data that discuss how much of this solar wind / radiation penetrates the earth.

[Dinox]

"Solar Wind"

I could not find any studies or data that discuss how much of this solar wind / radiation penetrates the earth.

It must be difficult to measure the amount of material involved. How would you even attempt to estimate it? I just know it's enough to create the spectacular Northern Lights...

[MathewFranklin]

"Solar Wind"

I became interested in reading more about comets and learned the tail of a comet is always pointed away from the comet. Interested in learning more about why, I discovered an interesting story. Eugene Parker created this crazy idea that the sun created a solar storm of particles through out the solar system he termed as "Solar Wind". His crazy ideas included outer coronal atmospheres that escaped the suns atmosphere supersonically into interstellar space. Opposition to Parker's hypothesis solar wind was strong, and his papers on the subject where rejected from notable scientific publication.

5 years later Luna 1 directly observed solar wind validating Parkers hypothesis but also measuring it being much stronger then even Parker had originally given it credit. It's this same Solar Wind that constantly pushes those tails away from the sun, but constantly bombards the entire solar system with a stream of charged particles mostly consists of electrons and protons with energies between 1.5 and 10 keV.

I could not find any studies or data that discuss how much of this solar wind / radiation penetrates the earth.

Very exciting.. There is plenty of disturbance in sun which is really effective earth climatic conditions..

[MathewFranklin]

"Solar Wind"

I became interested in reading more about comets and learned the tail of a comet is always pointed away from the comet. Interested in learning more about why, I discovered an interesting story. Eugene Parker created this crazy idea that the sun created a solar storm of particles through out the solar system he termed as "Solar Wind". His crazy ideas included outer coronal atmospheres that escaped the suns atmosphere supersonically into interstellar space. Opposition to Parker's hypothesis solar wind was strong, and his papers on the subject where rejected from notable scientific publication.

5 years later Luna 1 directly observed solar panel validating Parkers hypothesis but also measuring it being much stronger then even Parker had originally given it credit. It's this same Solar Wind that constantly pushes those tails away from the sun, but constantly bombards the entire solar system with a stream of charged particles mostly consists of electrons and protons with energies between 1.5 and 10 keV.

I could not find any studies or data that discuss how much of this solar wind / radiation penetrates the earth.

Very exciting.. There is plenty of disturbance in sun which is really effective earth climatic conditions..