6 results for “solar wind”
Planets & the Solar System
The Sun
solar wind, a stream of particles racing outward at hundreds of kilometres per second. The wind
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Planets & the Solar System
Comets, Asteroids and Pluto
solar wind, so a comet leaving the Sun travels tail-first. The European Rosetta spacecraft orbited
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Planets & the Solar System
Mars
solar wind gradually stripped the atmosphere away into space. As the air thinned, the water froze
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Planets & the Solar System
Saturn
solar system, and its moons include a world with methane lakes and another that sprays its ocean into space. When Galileo turned his telescope on Saturn in 1610 he was baffled
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Planets & the Solar System
Uranus and Neptune
solar system. Later telescope images caught storms and bright clouds as its seasons changed, so the blandness was partly bad timing. It is the coldest planet, colder even than more distant Neptune
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Planets & the Solar System
Jupiter
Winds at the boundaries blow at up to 600 kilometres per hour, in opposite directions on either side. Between the belts churn storms of staggering size. The Great Red Spot
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