What phenomenon occurs when charged particles escape from a planet's gravity?

• A. Dust Storms
• B. Aurora Borealis
• C. Solar Winds
• D. Light Wind

Answer: (C)

The main idea here is a flow of charged particles that manage to leave a body and stream outward into space. This is what solar winds describe: a steady outflow of charged particles, mainly protons and electrons, escaping into the solar system from a star’s outer atmosphere. The concept is about material breaking free and continuing to travel through space as a wind of charged particles. When these streams reach planets, they can interact with magnetic fields and atmospheres, producing effects like auroras, but the wind itself is the outflow of charged particles.

Dust storms involve particles lifted in a planet’s atmosphere, not a space-wide outflow of charged particles. The aurora borealis is a consequence of charged particles colliding with atmospheric atoms, not the escape process itself. A generic “light wind” isn’t a scientific term for this phenomenon.