Sunday, 22 April 2012

What is the difference between solar wind and solar radiation?

From Wikipedia's article on solar winds:




The solar wind is a stream of charged particles (a plasma) released
from the upper atmosphere of the Sun. It mostly consists of electrons
and protons with energies usually between 1.5 and 10 keV.




Solar radiation would be everything in general, including solar wind. Everything else is electromagnetic radiation (Radio, Microwave, Infra-red, Visible, Ultraviolet, X-ray, Gamma Ray)

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