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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Also perplexing is the sideways speed of the solar wind.
  — National Geographic, 4 Dec. 2019
• 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
• At times, the spacecraft will both align to take measurements of the solar wind or magnetic field.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020
• This data suggests that the transition causes the solar wind to pile up against the boundary.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2019
• Not only is there no air on the moon, but it is flooded with hydrogen that flows from the sun, carried by solar wind.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 5 Sep. 2020
• Jupiter has an aurora that’s fueled by the solar wind and also sparked by three of its moons: Io, Europa and Ganymede.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
• This allows protons and electrons that make up the solar wind to stream out more readily.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2022
• There are already some beliefs that solar wind helped play a part in creating life on Earth.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Apr. 2022
• Some of those hot and fast particles from the corona end up gushing into space as solar wind.
  — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
• The breathtaking phenomenon comes from solar wind, or the constant stream of ions that flows from the sun’s surface to Earth.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023
• As the first probe to boast cameras that stare directly at the sun up close, the craft aims to sense local breezes in the solar wind and trace them back to the surface eruptions that might cause them.
  — Rob Verger and Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 2 Dec. 2020
• The sun's solar wind then stripped away the Martian atmosphere, leaving behind the thin one the planet has today.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Feb. 2020
• The Northern Lights are caused by coronal mass ejections, in which massive amounts of plasma erupt from the sun’s surface and are blown to Earth on solar winds.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024