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Kinetic Physics of the Solar Corona and Solar Wind

Because the solar wind plasma is highly electrically conductive, the solar magnetic field lines are dragged away by the flow, and due to solar rotation are ...

Solar wind sandblasts Mercury - EarthSky

The solar wind is a squall of hot plasma, or charged particles, continuously emanating from the sun, and Mercury is the innermost planet in our ...

Driving and Dissipation of Solar-Wind Turbulence - Frontiers

Current theory holds that there are two energy reservoirs. The first is the remnant solar wind fluctuations of the energy-containing range. This includes the ...

Solar wind and kinetic heliophysics - ANGEO

The sources of the solar wind have been identified in the chromospheric network, transition region and corona of the Sun. Alfvén waves excited by reconnection ...

The solar wind can be thought of as evidence for which theor | Quizlet

The solar wind is made up of streams of protons and electrons that erupt from the corona. This wind flows at rates of up to 800 kilometers per second through ...

2 solar probes are helping researchers understand what ...

Physicist Eugene Parker predicted the solar wind's existence in 1958. The Mariner spacecraft, headed to Venus, would confirm its existence in ...

New Evidence of Origins of Solar Wind From Closest-Ever Approach ...

The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, which has flown closer to the Sun than any mission before, has found new evidence of the origins of the ...

'Alfvén waves': Scientists solve the mystery of solar wind gaining ...

The research confirms a theory proposed over 50 years ago, suggesting that Alfvén waves, in the form of switchbacks, provide enough energy to ...

Lucky alignment of 2 spacecraft reveals how solar wind gets a ...

Energy-packed plasma waves pump enough energy into streams of solar wind to propel them to their unexpectedly high speeds, observations by ...

Parker's Solar Wind | astrobites

The solar wind is a continuous stream of particles from the Sun that is part of the solar corona, or atmosphere.

On the history of the solar wind discovery - ResearchGate

The discovery of the solar wind has been an outstanding achievement in heliophysics and space physics.

Switchbacks and spikes: Parker Solar Probe data consistent with 20 ...

Close to the sun, solar wind—the outward stream of charged particles from the surface—is embedded with abrupt changes in magnetic field ...

The solar wind: how the Sun makes its own space weather

One theory of how this happens in the Sun is when solar arcades, a tight series of coronal loops, form along magnetic field lines that then ...

Parker Solar Probe: Nasa mission to Sun renamed after ... - WIRED

Nasa's 2018 mission to the Sun has been named after the astrophysicist who first proposed the theory of solar wind, Eugene Parker.

Parker Solar Probe observations of collisional effects on ...

Previous observations at 1 au have revealed that even though the local Coulomb collisions in the solar wind plasma are rare, the cumulative effect of the ...

Mystery of 'slow' solar wind unveiled by Solar Orbiter mission

Despite decades of observations, the sources and mechanisms that release, accelerate and transport solar wind plasma away from the Sun and into ...

Formation of the Supersonic Stellar Wind: Parker's Theory Revisited

One of the fundamental problems in solar physics is the formation of the supersonic solar wind. The conventional solar wind theory (Parker 1958, 1964a, b, 1965a ...

Solar wind flows in 'switchbacks and spikes' - Futurity

“This isn't like having the data and coming up with a theory that happens to line up with it,” says Kasper, who serves as principal investigator ...

Solar wind plasma : kinetic properties and micro-instabilities

Observations of solar wind +H and +2He by the Faraday Cup instrument component of the Solar Wind Experiment on the Wind spacecraft show that these ions have ...

Solar Wind Takes Up Mercury's Mantle - AAS Nova

It is, in fact, a corollary of the first theory that the authors of today's paper tested. Specifically, they hypothesize that as asteroid ...