2016 Saturn Solar Wind 
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NOVEMBER 24, 2021
The solar system’s biggest planet has a big problem You are orbiting Jupiter, 779 million km from the sun, where physics and logic say it ought to be very, very cold. If solar heating were the only factor at play, the planet's upper atmosphere would average 70 degrees below zero Celsius. Winds in the cloud bands reach 500 km/h.
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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Ouyang Ziyuan , a cosmochemist and early driving force for Chinese lunar exploration, notes in a July talk the potential extraction of helium-3 , delivered to the lunar surface by unfiltered solar wind, for nuclear fusion (which would require major breakthroughs on Earth and in space). China is already conducting. James Provost.
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