Author Topic: Interesting article: Solar wind can increase lightening strikes?  (Read 2226 times)

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Offline ClaireAnderson

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Re: Interesting article: Solar wind can increase lightening strikes?
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2015, 02:14:29 AM »
A nice read indeed. These streams of particles bring with them an enhanced magnetic field and this shields Earth from the very high-energy cosmic rays from outside of the Solar System - these are generated when supernovae explode, and they accelerate particles up to the speed of light.
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Re: Interesting article: Solar wind can increase lightening strikes?
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2015, 03:02:38 PM »
Agreed, good read. I actually watch the solar wind, x-ray flux and magnetometers pretty regularly and I did not know anything about this.
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