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Every day on Earth, you experience weather. You feel the wind blowing and see clouds move across the sky. Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be ...

The simplest definition of wind is air in motion. Wind is generated by uneven pressure in the atmosphere, which is caused by uneven heating by the Sun, land, and oceans. The air closest to the ground ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission studies how solar wind removed Mars’ atmosphere, using twin spacecraft to measure atmospheric escape, magnetosphere changes, and space weather impacts.