Why is the atmosphere, animal life & vegetation on Earth not dystroyed by solar winds from the Sun?

Question

All the other planets in the Solar System take a real battering from solar winds, why is the planet Earth different?

Answer 1

Life is protected on Earth because of the rotation between the inner and outer core of our planet. The rotation of these produce a magnetic field that protects us from solar wind like a 360 degree shield

Answer 2

The solar wind, a thin, high-velocity plasma, blows constantly from the Sun at an average speed of 250 miles per second (400 kilometers/sec). If the Earth had no global magnetic field, or magnetosphere, the solar wind would impact our atmosphere directly and gradually erode it away. Instead, the solar wind slams into the Earth's magnetosphere and is diverted around our planet. Buffeting of the magnetosphere is more intense during space storms, when explosive events on the Sun give the solar wind an unusually high velocity or density, or a particularly potent magnetic field configuration.  The magnetosphere does a good job staving off the solar wind.

Answer 3

It is largely deflected by the earths magnetic field.

Answer 4

Because of:

The magnetic field, it will deflect stuff.

The atmosphere, it is very thick and can repel alot of stuff.

Answer 5

Because we have a fairly strong magnetic field which deflects the solar wind.  However.....  A lot of the heavier particles actually do 'slid along' the magnetic lines fo force and, when they hit the atmosphere, they cause ionization over the magnetic poles at about 30 to 50 miles up which we call the 'Northern Lights' (aurora borealis) and the 'Southern Lights' (aurora australis).

HTH,

Doug

Answer 6

Not really, sun is 8 light minutes away from us, that's a long way and we are just a tiny speck and get maybe 1 billions of the suns rays. Little particles go actually constantly through you and the entire earth and come out the other side, most likely adding to us aging. Some of it is reflected by our atmosphere, ozone shield and magnetic shield. Most of the suns rays we actually need to sustain life.

Answer 7

The magnetic field protects the Earth from the solar winds, and the Ozone prevents too much ultra violet radiation(UV)  to enter our atmosphere. But, do to having a weak Ozone layer, which is in the upper Stratosphere, we are getting sun burns easier and it is causing more skin cancer to evolve. But we do have bad ozone in our Troposphere. But I don't know much about that. Now, why is Earth able to survive the harsh solar system. Really, the best solution is the Earth is positioned just right, not to far and not to close. Honest that is the best I can answer off the top of my head. Hope others can fill the gap that I have left out, sorry.

Answer 8

cas of the ozone layer i think...................... that could be very wrong thou !!!!!!! lol

Answer 9

Geo magnetic field and Atmosphere held by Earth's gravity.

Answer 10

we are protected from these, by a strong magnetic Field, which acts like a shield. have a nice day.

Answer 11

The magnetosphere gets most of the credit. It's amazing we're even here!

Answer 12

Our atmosphere protects us from gamma, x-ray and uv rays. While the magnetic field of Earth protects us from cosmic rays (galactic, solar, extragalactic, ultra high energy, and anamolous rays). The molten "dynamo" in the Earth's outer core creates this magnetic field. It consists of molten liquid metals such as iron, nickel and cobalt, while the rotating motion of the planet produces the Coriolis Effect which gives rise to eddy currents and the subsequent magnetic field. It's estimated that the magnetic field at the center of the Earth is at least 10 Tesla or 100,000 gauss. But the magnetic field on the surface of the Earth is only 0.5 to 2.0 gauss, since magnetic flux varies as the inverse CUBE of the distance.

There are even more powerful rays referred to as EUV, or Extreme Ultraviolet radiation emanating from stars that have one planet revolving about them, these are the exoplanets or extra solar planets that have been discovered. These planets orbit so close to their parent stars that their upper atmospheres are heated to 10,000 K by extreme-UV.