SOLAR WIND SLOWED BY HELIUM, RESEARCHERS SUGGEST

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 16, 2007 ;     783 words ......drag that slows the solar wind in its million-mile-per-...because the ordinary solar wind just can't pull...disturbances caused by solar wind. Those are the principal...collected by the Solar Wind Experiment, onboard...spacecraft Wind. Solar wind is a gas ...

Mystery of Solar Wind Solved

AP Online;  July 8, 1999 ;   PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer;   582 words ......Writer AP Online 07-08-1999 Mystery of Solar Wind Solved WASHINGTON (AP) -- Particles streaming...high speed flow from the sun, called the solar wind, has been a mystery to scientists for...researchers said Thursday, by showing that the solar wind's speed is boosted by magnetic waves ...

Satellite makes solar wind count. (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory...

Science News;  March 1, 1997 ;   Wu, Corinne;   326 words ......lawn sprinkler, electrically charged particles in the solar wind spiral outward from the sun...evaluates particles in the solar wind. Scientists recognized some...satellite observations of the solar wind, but CELIAS also detected...

Solar Wind Dried Up Mars.(Brief Article)

Popular Mechanics;  April 1, 2001 ;   Wilson, Jim Carder, Carol Coledan, Stefano Lowe, Malcolm V.;   90 words ......atmosphere was blown away by the solar wind is supported by the latest findings...concluded Mars Global Surveyor mission. Solar wind is a gusty breeze of charged particles from the sun. Earth is protected...output was larger in the past, and the solar wind was probably ...

solar wind

A Dictionary of Weather;    STORM DUNLOP;   109 words ...solar wind The stream of charged particles from the Sun's corona (3), predominantly...x2212;1 . The interaction of the solar wind with the Earth's geomagnetic...the magnetosphere . When the solar wind is highly active, the flux of...

Scientists worry as 'solar wind' slows.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  September 25, 2008 ;     124 words ......Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The slowing of the solar wind is of concern to scientists. Data from the Ulysses spacecraft has shown that the solar wind speed, usually about 400 kilometres per second, has...per second, the lowest level on record. The stream of charged particles ...

High-speed solar wind surfs magnetic waves.(Brief Article)

Science News;  July 17, 1999 ;   Cowen, R.;   523 words ......provide the push. Charged particles--ions and electrons...highest-speed component of the solar wind. These vibrating magnetic waves give solar wind particles a push...measure the velocity of charged particles in the sun's outer...directly show that ...

Try to catch the wind.(solar wind research)(Brief Article)

U.S. News & World Report;  August 6, 2001 ;   Boyce, Nell;   285 words ......hoping to catch was the solar wind, a steady stream of charged particles that emanates from the sun...again planning to catch some solar wind, in the agency's first attempt...open up and bask in the solar wind, allowing particles to embed...Scientists believe the ...

SOHO SPACECRAFT DETECTS SOURCE OF HIGH-SPEED SOLAR "WIND"

Regulatory Intelligence Data;  February 4, 1999 ;   INDSTRY GROUP 99;   728 words ......cracks in a dam. Called the high-speed solar wind, this gas flows out at two million miles...spacecraft. The nature and origin of the solar wind is one of the main mysteries SOHO was...solve. The search for the source of the solar wind has been like the hunt for the source...

Day sun lost its wind puzzles, delights scientists Phenomenon left only...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 19, 1999 ;   DAVID PERLMAN;   385 words ......corona sends out a constant, violent "solar wind" of electrically charged particles that speed in all directions at a...period around May 11, however, the solar wind suddenly and unexpectedly died away...Earth. Without resistance from the solar wind, Earth's magnetic ...

Sun taking a breather: ; Fewer sunspots, less solar wind observed

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  September 28, 2008 ;   Seth Borenstein;   411 words ......orbit a little longer. The solar wind - a stream of charged particles ejected from the sun's upper...similar cycle when it comes to solar wind strength. Scientists said...document a significantly weaker solar wind. The 17-year-old space probe...freezing fuel. Recently, ...

Genesis spacecraft heads home with solar wind data for Los Alamos, N.M.,...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  August 31, 2004 ;     649 words ......capture samples in the solar wind, a river of charged particles blown off the sun...who developed the solar wind collection system...in analyzing the charged particles, or ions. The goal...two days' worth of solar wind particles. We now...also measure the ...

Lithium masquerading as the solar wind.

Science News;  January 19, 1991 ;     215 words ......attributed to density changes in the solar wind. Researchers originally had hoped...Earth's magnetic field lines after the charged particles were ejected from a satellite called...fluctuations in the pressure of the solar wind, and they changed during the lithium release. However, ...

Spacecraft answer is blowing in the solar wind

The Scotsman;  August 21, 1999 ;   ALASTAIR JAMIESON;   534 words ......system. The creation would use the 'solar wind' to give spacecraft a massive boost in speed. Solar cells and solenoid coils around...catch the wind from the sun. The 'solar wind' is a powerful stream of charged particles travelling at 1.8 million miles...travel fast enough to ...

Herbert S. Bridge, 76; physicist, built tool to help map solar wind

The Boston Globe;  September 2, 1995 ;   Tom Long, Globe Staff;   337 words ......who played a key role in mapping the solar wind, died of coronary artery disease Wednesday...Traveling at a speed of 200,000 m.p.h., the solar wind flows around Earth like a river around...novel instrument for the study of the solar wind, the modulated-grid Faraday cup, which...