Electric winds

[kell1990]

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/20 ... mosph.html

I tried to copy some of the text of the article to this post but apparently I'm not smart enough to do it. Any help appreciated.

Nevertheless a very interesting article, and one that is pulling the establishment view of the Universe closer to that of the EU/PC.

We're getting there.

[D_Archer]

"We found that the electric wind, which people thought was just one small cog in a big machine, is in fact this big monster that's capable of sucking the water from Venus by itself," said Collinson.

Just as every planet has a gravity field, it is believed that every planet with an atmosphere is also surrounded by a weak electric field. While the force of gravity is trying to hold the atmosphere on the planet, the electric force (the same force that sticks laundry together in a drier and pushes electricity through wires) can help to push the upper layers of the atmosphere off into space.

The team discovered Venus' electric field using the electron spectrometer, a component of the ASPERA-4 instrument, aboard the ESA Venus Express. They were monitoring electrons flowing out of the upper atmosphere when it was noticed that these electrons were not escaping at their expected speeds

the team was able to measure the strength of the field, finding it to be much stronger than anyone had expected, and at least five times more powerful than at Earth

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Regards,
Daniel

[Eutrophicated1]

I'm not sure there can be an 'electric' wind, without a corresponding 'magnetic' component to it.

[comingfrom]

When an electric field is carrying charged particles (electrons and ions),
then a magnetic field is generated orthogonal to the electric field.

This is my current understanding, but I am open to be told otherwise.
~Paul

[Z-axis]

It should always go without saying [but sometimes needs to be said] A moving electric charge ALWAYS has a corresponding magnetic field component.

Just remember the basic electricity "right hand rule" of physics.
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"The right hand rule states that: to determine the direction of the magnetic force on a positive moving charge, ƒ, point the thumb of the right hand in the direction of v, the fingers in the direction of B, and a perpendicular to the palm points in the direction of F."

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