solar radiation
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Because Earth's axis is tilted relative to its orbit, areas outside the tropics experience one yearly peak in solar radiation near the summer solstice.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
The visionaries of the early Space Age didn’t worry much about solar radiation, coronal mass ejections, galactic cosmic rays, psychological stress from isolation, and cost-benefit ratios.
From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025
The Toulouse, France-based company had warned that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 1, 2025
Thousands of Airbus planes are being returned to normal service, officials say, after being grounded for hours due to a warning that solar radiation could interfere with onboard flight control computers.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
A further decrease of 8% in solar radiation, they calculate, would bring the walls creeping together; there would be no men, no land; only ice.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
