solar wind
noun
: plasma continuously ejected from the sun's surface into and through interplanetary space
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For the last 11 years, the spacecraft has explored how Mars' upper atmosphere and ionosphere interact with the Sun and the solar wind to examine the loss of the Martian atmosphere into space, according to NASA.
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Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
These new findings come just a year after another team looked at the old data to conclude that the solar wind had indeed compressed Uranus' magnetosphere, squeezing out the plasma normally present.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are waves of light created when the solar wind strikes the atmosphere, creating a display of moving lights in the night sky.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Dec. 2025
Since entering interstellar space, the craft has been studying plasma waves, cosmic rays and magnetic fields in the heliosphere, the immense bubble of solar wind around the solar system.
—George Petras, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
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Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
These new findings come just a year after another team looked at the old data to conclude that the solar wind had indeed compressed Uranus' magnetosphere, squeezing out the plasma normally present.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are waves of light created when the solar wind strikes the atmosphere, creating a display of moving lights in the night sky.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Dec. 2025
Since entering interstellar space, the craft has been studying plasma waves, cosmic rays and magnetic fields in the heliosphere, the immense bubble of solar wind around the solar system.
—George Petras, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
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“Solar wind.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solar%20wind. Accessed 16 Dec. 2025.
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