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• Solar flare — A solar flare is a violent explosion in a star s (like the Sun s) atmosphere releasing as much energy as 6 times; 1025 Joules.cite journal last=Kopp first=G. coauthors=Lawrence, G and Rottman, G. year=2005… …   Wikipedia

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• Solar Maximum Mission — The Solar Maximum Mission satellite (or SolarMax) was designed to investigate solar phenomenon, particularly solar flares. It was launched on February 14, 1980. Whilst not unique in this endeavour, the SMM was notable in that its useful life… …   Wikipedia

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• Solar and Heliospheric Observatory — Infobox Space telescope name = Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) caption = organization = ESA / NASA alt names = nssdc id = location = L1 orbit type = height = 1.5×106 km (heliocentric) period = 1 Earth year velocity = accel gravity =… …   Wikipedia

• Solar proton event — A Solar proton event occurs when protons emitted by the Sun become accelerated to very high energies either close to the Sun during a solar flare or in interplanetary space by the shocks associated with coronal mass ejections. These high energy… …   Wikipedia

• Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager — (RHESSI, or more rarely Explorer 81) is the sixth mission in the line of NASA Small Explorer missions (also known as SMEX). Launched on 5 February 2002, its primary mission is to explore the basic physics of particle acceleration and explosive… …   Wikipedia

• Space-based solar power — Left: Part of the solar energy is lost on its way through the atmosphere by the effects of reflection and absorption. Right: Space based solar power systems convert sunlight to microwaves outside the atmosphere, avoiding these losses, and the… …   Wikipedia

• Forbush effect — ▪ astronomy       in astronomy, an occasional decrease in the intensity of cosmic rays as observed on Earth, attributed to magnetic effects produced by solar flares (solar flare), which are disturbances on the Sun. The effect was discovered in… …   Universalium