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What do charged particles from the sun that get close to the earths surface produce?
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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 10 and 100 keV. The stream of particles varies in temperature and speed over time. These particles can escape the Sun's gravity because of their high kinetic energy and the high temperature of the corona.
The solar wind creates the heliosphere, a vast bubble in the interstellar medium that surrounds the solar system. Other phenomena include geomagnetic storms that can knock out power grids on Earth, the aurorae (northern and southern lights), and the plasma tails of comets that always point away from the Sun.
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buthole
Is earths surface in constant motion?
Yes, relative to any observer not attached to the earth's surface.
When the Sun's rays strike earths surface energy is what?
Absorbed
Why is the acceleration due to gravity on the surface of Mars is about one third the acceleration due to gravity on earths surface?
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How do you get the newtons of an object?
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What do electrically charged particles from the sun strike in earths magnetosphere to produce sheets of light known as auroras?
Dust Particles
Is it true that charged particles from the solar wind come closest to earth at the equator where earths magnetic field lines dip to earths surface?
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What are the charged particles found in the top layers of the earths atmosphere called?
Ions
What are the remains of extraterrestrial particles that are found on earths surface?
Meteorites.
What are the remains of extraterrestrial particles that are found on earths surface are called?
Meteorites.
Does water particles fall to the earths surface after their temperature increases?
No when there density increases
Prevents charged particles from the sun from reaching the surface?
The Earth is protected from the sun's charged particles by its magnetic field. The Earths magnetic field is generated within its molten iron core. Other examples of planets with magnetic fields include: Mercury, Jupiter, Ganymede (Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system) , Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.Mercury has a relitivley weak magnetic field. It is so weak that the suns charged particles can reach the surface of Mercury. +++ Also the atmosphere.
What occurs when a high level of charged particles outside the earths atmosphere manage to penetrate the atmosphere?
auroras
What occurs when a high level of charged particles outside the earths atmosphere manages to penetrate the atmosphere?
auroras
When occurs when a high level of charged particles outside the earths atmosphere manages to penetrate the atmosphere?
auroras
What is formed when physical or chemical processes weather rock on or near the earths surface?
Smaller particles of rock are produced from larger particles.
What are two effects of earths magnetic fields?
Earth's magnetic field can make magnets out of ferromagnetic material and it affects the movements of electrically charged particles in space.
