... The Wind Spacecraft NASA's " Wind " spacecraft was launched 1 November 1994 by a ... Wind" was then moved to a complicated orbit which allows it to sample different ... wind, WIND with its unique capabilities can be positioned elsewhere, providing ...
... Wind" remains in an elongated elliptical orbit and continues to observe the solar ... Some of the instruments aboard Wind measure properties of the solar wind plasma--for ...
... the solar wind parameters observed by several spacecraft (INTERBALL-1, WIND, IMP 8 ... Data for WIND and IMP 8 are shifted by the time of solar wind propagation to the ...
... polar wind characteristics are that it is cold, field-aligned (out of the ionosphere), and the velocities are inversely correlated with ion mass, favouring lighter ions, i.e., H + and He + (Banks and Holzer, 1969; for a recent review of polar wind, see ...
... wind plasma parameters (density, velocity, etc.) and IMF (especially direction in ... within the solar wind (quite often none at all), and the solar wind/IMF system is ...
... The first indication that the sun might be emitting a "wind" came from comet tails , observed to point away from the Sun, whether the comet was approaching the Sun or whether it was moving away. ...
... Very high values of Solar Wind Speed, Solar Wind Pressure, IMF Magnitude and Bz, and Polar Cap Potential are likely indications that WIND has reentered the Earth's magnetosphere; such data is not indicative of solar wind conditions or impending severe ...
... 18H. The Solar Wind -- History . Ulysses. ... Not everyone accepted Parker's theory of the solar wind when it was first published in 1958, and it was debated until ...