A few links on the solar wind

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast08dec98_1b.htm
http://space.rice.edu/ISTP/dials.html
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0012/17marsmagnet/
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast02mar_1m.htm
http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/imf.html
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast31jan%5F1.htm
http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/personnel/russell/papers/interact_solwind/
http://www.oulu.fi/~spaceweb/textbook/solarwind.html
http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/ssc/tutorial/magnetosphere.html

This one shows how an unmagnetised Earth survives.

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404580

Stephen

http://www.cix.co.uk/~sforbesa