Solar Winds

Question 1

What are solar winds?

Answer 1

The ejected particles from the Sun travel through space as solar winds

Question 2

How does the Earth protect itself from most solar winds?

Answer 2

It’s magnetic field deflects most of the particles.

Question 3

What are auroras?

Answer 3

Particles from solar winds hitting Earth’s atmosphere

Question 4

What are northern and southern lights called?

Answer 4

Aurora Borealis

Aurora Australias

Question 5

What are different ways solar activity cause communication disruptions?

Answer 5

• solar activity can affect artificial satellites (disrupts cellphone and satellite TV communications)
• scientists constantly monitor satellites and boost them back into their orbits to prevent them from falling and burning up in the atmosphere
• radiation is very dangerous during spacewalks or even in spacecrafts
• no atmosphere to protect astronomers from radiation