Was its magnetic field disrupted as the magma in its mantle cooled, exposing it to solar winds?
Run by NOAA once aloft, the modernized satellite would focus on warning the Earth about incoming solar winds.
The portals, also known as X-points in Scudder-speak, are born from the mingling of Earth's magnetic field with incoming solar winds.
Scientists believe solar winds can distort magnetic fields during certain weather systems.
The closer we look, the more hostile the planet seems: parched and frozen in every season, its atmosphere inert and murderously thin, its surface scoured by solar winds.
Experts have estimated that the moon is a rich depository of the isotope with possible reserves that stretch meters down into the lunar soil that have been carried there by solar winds.
Solar experts believe that the tachocline may be the source of powerful magnetic fields that produce strong solar flares and solar winds, and create sunspots that mysteriously appear and disappear during an 11-year cycle.
Should the deal fall apart, First Solar would sustain a blow to its developing emphasis on designing, building and selling large solar projects to developers a strategy that was supposed to keep the company on an even keel amid squeezed margins affecting its solar-manufacturing business, which has seen industry-wide head winds.
Robert Dane, then working as a country doctor in Australia, was watching a race of solar-powered vessels in Sydney Harbor in 1997 when one of them ran into difficulty due to strong winds.
Longer term, were we served by more renewable power generators (wind, solar) we would be better protected against unpredictable price spikes in oil and gas markets that may come when political winds blow in an unexpected direction.
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