Noun
dayside (plural daysides)
(astronomy) The side of a planet that faces towards the sun around which it orbits
After a brilliant run as Washington night editor, Lara Jakes will be joining us dayside as a deputy editor overseeing the coverage of foreign policy in Washington. Source: Internet
Ions and electrons of the solar wind are deflected by the magnetosphere; solar wind pressure compresses the dayside of the magnetosphere, to about 10 Earth radii, and extends the nightside magnetosphere into a long tail. Source: Internet
Other types of auroras have been observed from space, e.g."poleward arcs" stretching sunward across the polar cap, the related "theta aurora", citation and "dayside arcs" near noon. Source: Internet
The mean dayside temperature would be 275 K. At night, based on Merlis (2010) in a study of aquaplanets, it would be about 246 K. So the global mean temperature would be 260 K, not not 243.3 K, as the single-use SB equation would give. Source: Internet
Chapman and Bartels (1940) illustrated this concept by postulating a plate with infinite conductivity placed on the dayside of a planet’s dipole as shown in the schematic. Source: Internet
On the dayside of Earth, the magnetic field is significantly compressed by the solar wind to a distance of approximately convert. Source: Internet