Solar cycle · ≈ 1645–1715
The Maunder Minimum
A roughly seventy-year span in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries when sunspots almost vanished from the record. It overlapped part of the cooler period known as the Little Ice Age, though the size of any climate link is debated. It is the archetype of a grand solar minimum.
Highlights
- ›Sunspots nearly vanished for ~70 years
The Sun, its layers & phenomena
Across solar physics
Knowledge connections
- Associated withThe Sun
- Associated withThe Solar Cycle
- Associated withThe Dalton Minimum
- Associated withSunspots
- Associated withThe Dalton Minimum
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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