How to Use solar wind in a Sentence

solar wind

noun

• Yes, waiting around for the solar winds to blow your way can be trying.
  — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• Another type of wave the probe picked up in the solar wind is called a Langmuir wave.
  — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2020
• Six minutes later, the burst of light lit up a solar wind probe between the Sun and Earth.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 8 Apr. 2021
• The team found that even in the absence of the solar wind, the moon continued to create new water.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• Earth is lucky to have a magnetic field that shields it from the solar wind, while Venus gets slammed by it.
  — Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 May 2024
• The imager was designed to detect faint features in the solar wind that streams out from the sun.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
• Right then, the satellite is shielded from the solar wind, a handy fact for the researchers wanting to test the effects of the tail alone.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• At the edges of the heliosphere is where the solar wind meets the interstellar wind.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• One theory is that water hitched a ride to the moon as protons in the solar wind.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 26 Oct. 2020
• Parker first recognized the idea of a solar wind back in 1957.
  — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 2 Nov. 2017
• Its main mission was to study the solar wind and its evolution.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024
• The solar wind is a steady stream of energized particles that flow out from the sun.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Feb. 2021
• These holes beam high-speed solar winds out into space.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
• The density of the solar wind is expected to thin out with distance from the Sun.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2019
• These belts protect the Earth’s atmosphere from the Sun’s solar wind.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020
• The wave of solar wind will also extend the reach of auroras.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 14 May 2024
• The Northern Lights Explained The solar wind causes the northern lights.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
• Some process heats up these plasmas in the corona to millions of degrees and makes them speed away from the sun as solar wind.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 July 2019
• Much like a cup of hot tea that gives off steam in the morning, the hot sun gives off a constant stream of particles, known as the solar wind.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2020
• The longer the soil was exposed to punishing cosmic radiation and solar wind on the moon, the worse the plants seemed to do.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 May 2022
• These switchbacks are thought to help generate the slow solar wind.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
• The spacecraft is designed to study space weather, solar winds and radiation and, for the first time, the sun's poles.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2020
• Sometimes the solar wind can be strengthened by explosions on the sun.
  — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2022
• Here on Earth, our thick atmosphere and magnetic field shield us from much of the solar wind.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 19 Oct. 2018
• Also perplexing is the sideways speed of the solar wind.
  — National Geographic, 4 Dec. 2019
• The creation of water via the solar wind could help explain the presence of water on the moon and on asteroids.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2014
• Another instrument is stationed on the side of the orbiter to watch the solar wind stream by.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Feb. 2020
• The first surprise from the Alabama instrument came in measurements of the solar wind close to the sun.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 4 Dec. 2019
• The spacecraft studied both the effects of meteorites and solar wind on building the moon’s atmosphere.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
• It’s also often said that the northern (and southern) lights are strongest around the equinoxes when our planet’s magnetic field is best aligned with the solar wind’s.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024