How Our Violent Sun Drives the Earth’s Climate (Instead of Wiping Out the Planet)

The star at the center of our solar system is one jumbo ball of atomic merger that ’s always shell out grave solar hint . Closer satellite like Venus take a real trouncing , butEarth is protect by a magnetosphere , and instead harnesses the sun ’s energy to power our major planet ’s clime .

This NASA video is actually a clip from a longer documentary film playing at the Smithsonian call Dynamic Earth : Exploring dry land ’s Climate Engine , and its visual image of wind and sea electric current were create using the agency ’s hefty climate simulators . The Earth ’s spin around molten sum in reality grow a strong magnetic field of view that deflects most of the Dominicus ’s harmful ejections , and what vim that is n’t blocked or reflect by clouds and ice serve to heat the major planet and generate the atmospheric condition system that let us grow intellectual nourishment . So in a way , the sun ’s our biggest enemy and our big friend at the same time . Even if today it feels like it ’s doing more impairment than good . [ Universe TodayviaGeekosystem ]

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