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The solar wind speed at Earth normally lies around 300km/sec but increases when a coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) or coronal mass ejection (CME) arrives. During a coronal mass ejection impact, the solar wind speed can jump suddenly to 500, or even more than 1000km/sec.
The sun makes energy in its inner core in a process. called nuclear fusion. It takes the sunâs energy just a little over eight minutes to travel the. 93 million miles to Earth. Solar energy travels at the speed of light, or. 186,000 miles per second, or 3.0 x 108 meters per second. Only a small part of the visible radiant energy (light) that the. sun emits into space ever reaches the Earth, but that is more than. enough to supply all our energy needs.