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The Sun provides the main energy input to the Solar System, which is tied up to its star through gravitation, and is the first receptacle of the Sun’s radiation, of its coronal mass ejections and of its solar wind. Located at roughly 150 million km from the Sun, right in the middle of the habitable zone and inhabited, the Earth is sensitive to these solar inputs. They, as well as the way the Earth reacts to them, determine the mean temperature of our planet. It is therefore essential to properly understand their effects and howtheir variations might influence the Earth’s climate and that of similar bodies such as Venus and Mars.
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Bonnet, R.M. (2006). Assessing Solar Variability. In: Calisesi, Y., Bonnet, R.M., Gray, L., Langen, J., Lockwood, M. (eds) Solar Variability and Planetary Climates. Space Sciences Series of ISSI, vol 23. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48341-2_2
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