Tag: Earth’s magnetosphere
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Solar Storms and Solar Wind: How Particles from the Sun Shape Life on Earth
What are solar wind and solar storms? Every day, Earth experiences weather in the sky—wind, clouds, rain. But there’s also weather in space, driven by the Sun. Two key phenomena in space weather are the solar wind and solar storms. The solar wind is a steady stream of charged particles—mostly protons and electrons—that flows continuously…