Abstract
After Sputnik and prior to manned flight, the Luna, and Explorer programs had taught us about the magnetic environment of the Earth with its Van Allen Radiation Belts, and shown that the moon unlike the earth had no detectable magnetic field. The Surveyor missions demonstrated that the Moon was an evolved body like Earth rather than a primitive body, so it looked as though there could be a core, in which a magnetic field might at one time have originated.
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Korolev and Sputnik 1 Image courtesy of Rocket City Space Pioneers.
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The occurrence of a solar flare in 1859 followed a day later by a magnetic storm suggested to each of Carrington and Hodgson independently that a stream of particles was flowing from the sun to the earth and that the strength was dependent upon events on the sun. Half a century later in 1910, Eddington made the same suggestion in connection with a study of Comet Morehouse. The term solar wind came from Parker, who had developed a model for the escape of supersonic particles from the outer corona of the sun.
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NASA on line images.
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Images courtesy of NASA.
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Courtesy Peel M (1991) Jodrell bank centre for astrophysics, University of Manchester, See also Lovell B., “Astronomer by chance”, McMillan Books, London
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Fuller, M. (2014). The Birth of the Space Age and Unmanned Missions to the Moon. In: Our Beautiful Moon and its Mysterious Magnetism. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00278-1_3
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