The Sun Answers

What is the temperature of the middle most layer of the Sun's atmosphere?

Dr. Perez is part of a team of researchers who are working on designing and building a probe to study solar flares. What condition must the probe meet?

What are formed when particles in solar wind travel along lines of Earth’s magnetic field and collide with gas atoms?

The local newspaper has published the passage below.Last week, scientists released incredible images of aurora australis, known as the northern lights. The images show a beautiful display of lights. These lights are the result of the solar activity known as solar wind. The particles of the solar wind flow along the lines of Earth’s magnetic field and collide with gas atoms in Earth’s atmosphere. Light is given off as a result of these collisions. Traces of solar wind reach well beyond Earth and have been detected as far as Saturn.Which statement is inaccurate?

What are the dark areas on the surface of the Sun?

Taden has found a table of the atmospheric layers of the Sun. However, he can’t make out the names of the layers in the chart.What are the names of the Sun’s layers described in columns A, B, and C?

Carrie is making a presentation on solar winds. Her notes of the steps that must occur for solar winds to form are below.1. The stream of electrically charged particles collide with gas atoms, causing the latter to give off light.2. The electrically charged particles flow outward in all directions as far as Saturn.3. The stream of electrically charged particles flows outward from the corona.4. The particles of the solar wind flow along lines of the magnetic field.Which shows the correct sequence in the formation of solar winds?

The distance between planets varies as they move in their orbits. The minimum distance from the Earth to Mars is about 0.35 AU. About how many kilometers is that?

A magnetic field protects Earth from the Sun’s high-energy particles. What two processes are involved in the formation of Earth’s magnetic field?

Radio communications were severely disturbed last week, and the local newspaper says that solar activity is to blame. Which types of solar activity could the newspaper be talking about?