Mountain Wind

Deep within the mountains, the winds lay claim to everything. It moves the trees, the earth, and the rivers. The birds are heard calling to one another, perhaps heralding the power of the wind as it sweeps through the mountain terrain. Gusts pick up bits of branches and leaves and relocate them with the greatest of ease.

Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On the surface of the Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the sun through space, while planetary wind is the outgassing of light chemical elements from a planet's atmosphere into space. Winds are commonly classified by their spatial scale, their speed, the types of forces that cause them, the regions in which they occur, and their effect. The strongest observed winds on a planet in our solar system occur on Neptune and Saturn.