: plasma continuously ejected from the sun's surface into and through interplanetary space
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Recent Examples on the WebInstead of an atmosphere, Mercury has a thin exposure made of atoms that use solar wind and strike meteoroids to blast off the surface, NASA writes. Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022 Combined with a coronal hole that is releasing some extra solar wind, there’s plenty of factors in the space weather environment to get those lights dancing. Eric Mack, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022 The astronauts collected samples and photographed Flag Crater, took the first measurement with the lunar portable magnetometer at Spook Crater and deployed the solar wind composition experiment at the ALSEP site. Julia Musto, Fox News, 16 Apr. 2022 The solar wind, while continuous, can become violent when the sun throws out gigantic eruptions of particles known as coronal mass ejections.New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022 The imager was designed to detect faint features in the solar wind that streams out from the sun. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022 At the edges of the heliosphere is where the solar wind meets the interstellar wind. Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 May 2022 There are already some beliefs that solar wind helped play a part in creating life on Earth. Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Apr. 2022 The spacecraft's instruments record data from the solar wind and magnetic fields and try to trace them to their origins through the complex, magnetic environment and back to the sun. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 May 2022 See More