Local Solar System Plasma Atmosphere: %99+ Plasma comprised of Hydrogen, Helium and trace amounts of heavy ions and atomic nuclei contained by a wall of hydrogen?

in science •  2 years ago 

""99.9 percent of the Universe is made up of plasma," says Dr. Dennis Gallagher, a plasma physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center."
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/1999/ast07sep99_1/

"interstellar medium particles"
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-evidence-our-neighborhood-in-space-is-stuffed-with-hydrogen

"the Sun emits small particles, each carrying so small of a charge, that they move with great velocity"
https://www.nuenergy.org/nikola-tesla-radiant-energy-system/

"The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun, called the corona. This plasma mostly consists of electrons, protons and alpha particles with kinetic energy between 0.5 and 10 keV. The composition of the solar wind plasma also includes a mixture of materials found in the solar plasma: trace amounts of heavy ions and atomic nuclei such as C, N, O, Ne, Mg, Si, S, and Fe. There are also rarer traces of some other nuclei and isotopes such as P, Ti, Cr, 54Fe and 56Fe, and 58Ni, 60Ni, and 62Ni."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind

"Hydrogen, the most common element in the Universe, makes up most of the sun and the solar wind. Helium is the second most abundant element, but it is much rarer in the solar wind than it is elsewhere in the Universe. The team discovered that the abundance of helium increased as the solar wind speed increased, from near zero around the minimum speed to more than four helium atoms for every 100 hydrogen atoms at speeds greater than about 500 kilometers per second (310 miles/sec.)."
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/solar_wind_speed.html

"Like wind on Earth, the solar wind is gusty, ranging in speed from about 750,000 miles per hour (approximately 350 km/second) to 1.5 million miles per hour (700 km/second).

Since the solar wind is made up of electrically-charged particles, it responds to magnetic fields that permeate the solar atmosphere. Solar wind particles flow along invisible lines of magnetic force like cars on a highway."
https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/solar_wind_speed.html

"the hydrogen wall. Current observations suggest a distance of at least 100 times further out than Earth is to the Sun."
https://www.21stcentech.com/evidence-voyagers-horizon-points-wall-hydrogen-surrounding-solar-system/

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