solar wind
Noun
Meaning
a stream of protons moving radially from the sun
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About 91 per cent of the Sun’s atoms are hydrogen, so everything that happens in the solar wind plasma is influenced by hydrogen.
Advanced sailing spacecraft might deploy field coils as "keels," so the spacecraft could use the difference in vector between the solar magnetic field and the solar wind, much as sailing yachts do.
After entering into the heliosheath the spacecraft are in an area that is dominated by the Sun's magnetic field and solar wind particles.
Analysis of a silicon wafer exposed to the solar wind in space and returned by the crashed Genesis spacecraft has shown that the Sun has a higher proportion of oxygen-16 than does the Earth.
Although solar wind particles have rest mass and photons do not, sunlight has thousands of times more momentum than the solar wind.
A group of scientists directly observed the existence of certain waves in the solar wind that were not expected.