Transcript: The diffuse solar corona expands rapidly into deep space, and charged particles are blasted out from the site of sunspots and flares on the solar surface. The result of these two effects is the solar wind. The solar wind is a diffuse stream of charged and energetic particles traveling out into space. At the distance of the Earth the speed is four hundred to a thousand kilometers per second, and the temperature is two hundred thousand degrees Kelvin although little heat is transmitted to the Earth because the solar wind is so diffuse. It extends past the orbit of Saturn. The solar wind creates substantial effects on the Earth when it interacts with the Earth’s magnetosphere.