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All planets lose a small amount of atmospheric gases due to some atoms/molecules (even neutral ones) having an energy high enough to escape the gravitational field of the planet. This tends to affect lighter elements more as they have higher velocities at the same temperature.
This kind of thermal 'outgassing' is in principle the same as that producing the '...
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If I understand your question correctly, it is about EPI-Lo which a part of the Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun (ISʘIS) . The picture is also taken from there:
EPI-Lo stands for Energetic Particle Instrument-Low energy which indeed sounds confusing at first sight. The essential definition can be found in the instrument paper:
EPI-Lo measures ...
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From going through the literature the paper by Wang et al. 2021 is citing, I am nearly certain that the term "Earth wind" must be a recent invention, perhaps by those authors themselves.
It is however correct to call the solar wind a 'wind'. This is because a wind is a pressure-driven bulk motion of a collectively coupled gas. The solar wind, at ...
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