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[img]http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/images/polarcrown/pcp_strip.jpg[/img]
[url]http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/17sep_polarcrown.htm[/url]
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"That was a polar crown prominence recorded by Hinode on Nov. 30, 2006," says Dr. Thomas Berger of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, California. "It is a curved wall of 10,000o plasma about 90,000 km long and 30,000 km tall." A stack of planets three Earths high would barely make it to the top.
Solar astronomers have seen prominences like this before, thousands of them, but never so clearly. The new view is challenging long-held ideas: In the past, researchers thought of prominences as mainly static structures, held motionless above the surface of the sun by magnetic force fields. "Now we know those ideas are too simple. Just watch the movie!"
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Yea, thats groovy
[url]http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/17sep_polarcrown.htm[/url]
[quote]
"That was a polar crown prominence recorded by Hinode on Nov. 30, 2006," says Dr. Thomas Berger of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, California. "It is a curved wall of 10,000o plasma about 90,000 km long and 30,000 km tall." A stack of planets three Earths high would barely make it to the top.
Solar astronomers have seen prominences like this before, thousands of them, but never so clearly. The new view is challenging long-held ideas: In the past, researchers thought of prominences as mainly static structures, held motionless above the surface of the sun by magnetic force fields. "Now we know those ideas are too simple. Just watch the movie!"
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Yea, thats groovy
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