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Tim Peake is an ESA/UK astonautProject 7 – Energy from the Sun
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Energy from the Sun
In one second the Sun produces as much energy, 4 x 1026 J,
as the world would use in a million years. Photo: Helen Mason
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Project 7 – Energy from the Sun
Energy production and transfer processes inside the SunCredit: NASA/ESA
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Energy is produced in the core of the Sun by nuclear fusionaccording to the famous equation of Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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Sun’s electromagnetic spectrumhttp://www.ces.fau.edu/nasa/module-2/radiation-sun.phpCredit: Climate Science Investigation: NASA
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Plants need light and warmth to grow. Almost all the energy here on Earth comes from the Sun. Some energy sources are renewable, some are not!Photo credit: Helen Mason
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Artwork: a flower made from real solar images from the SoHO satellite:The central green part is an image in the UV from SoHO/EIT, the outer petals are in the visible from SoHO/LASCO. Credit:NASA/ESA
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Annual hours of sunshine across the world Wikipedia: public domain: source: Landsberg, H. E. in Pinna, M. L'atmosfera e il clima, Torino, UTET, 1978, p. 63
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Spectrum of solar radiation above the Earth’s atmosphere and at the Earth’s surfaceCredit. Taken from Wikipedia, Creative Commons, free to share:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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Greenhouse effect.Credit: courtesy of IPCC
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Even small changes in temperature could have a devastating effect on the Earth’s climate and environment leading, for example, to more storms and floods. This photos shows floods in York.Credit: Gordon Hatton, geograph.org.uk, free to share, creative commons
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Solar panels on rooftops are used to heat water Photo: helen Mason
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Solar panels over the stadium in Verona, Italy Image: juwi Solar
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SOLARIMPULSE- first completely solar powered plane to fly day and nightAttempted around the world trip in 2015, halted in Hawaii.http://info.solarimpulse.com/
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Close-up of the ISS’s solar panelsPhoto from the ISS: Samantha Cristoforetti. Credit: ESA
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Samantha Cristoforetti was fascinated by the solar panels on the ISS, and just couldn’t stop taking photos of them! Credit: ESA