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• Solar wind — For other uses, see Solar wind (disambiguation). The solar wind is a stream of charged particles ejected from the upper atmosphere of the Sun. It mostly consists of electrons and protons with energies usually between 1.5 and 10 keV. The stream of …   Wikipedia

• Solar power satellite — A solar power satellite, or SPS or Powersat, as originally proposed would be a satellite built in high Earth orbit that uses microwave power transmission to beam solar power to a very large antenna on Earth. Advantages of placing the solar… …   Wikipedia

• Solar Sentinels — The Solar Sentinels is a space mission to study the Sun during its solar maximum, the last before the beginning of the Orion program. Six spacecraft will be launched, which will separate into three groups. The Solar Sentinels are part of the NASA …   Wikipedia

• Solar minimum — is the period of least solar activity in the solar cycle of the sun. During this time, sunspot and solar flare activity diminishes, and often does not occur for days at a time. The date of the minimum is described by a smoothed average over 12… …   Wikipedia

• Solar Energy Generating Systems — (SEGS) is the largest solar energy generating facility in the world. It consists of nine solar power plants in California s Mojave Desert, where insolation is among the best available in the United States. FPL Energy operates and partially owns… …   Wikipedia

• solar flare — n. a sudden, short lived increase of intensity in the light of the sun, usually near sunspots, often accompanied by a large increase in cosmic rays, X rays, etc. and by resultant magnetic storms …   English World dictionary

• Solar proton event — A Solar proton event occurs when protons emitted by the Sun become accelerated to very high energies either close to the Sun during a solar flare or in interplanetary space by the shocks associated with coronal mass ejections. These high energy… …   Wikipedia

• Solar System — This article is about the Sun and its planetary system. For other systems, see planetary system and star system. For a list of physical and orbital statistics for the Solar System s largest bodies, see List of gravitationally rounded objects of… …   Wikipedia

• Solar cycle — The solar cycle, or the solar magnetic activity cycle, is the main source of periodic variation of all solar phenomena driving variations in space weather. [ [http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ssb/SSB Space weather97.pdf Space Weather: A Research …   Wikipedia

• Solar flare — A solar flare is a violent explosion in a star s (like the Sun s) atmosphere releasing as much energy as 6 times; 1025 Joules.cite journal last=Kopp first=G. coauthors=Lawrence, G and Rottman, G. year=2005… …   Wikipedia

• solar wind — /soʊlə ˈwɪnd/ (say sohluh wind) noun Astrophysics a stream of electrically charged particles blown constantly from the sun, occasionally gusting as the result of space storms and dumping massive amounts of energy into earth s magnetic field …