From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 08:36:57 PDT
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Subject: Winds of 320 000 kilometres per hour on the Sun
The SUMER instrument on the ESA-NASA SOHO spacecraft has measured
amazing wind speeds during its observations of the Sun. It sets a
new record in its examination of two loops of gas arching in the
solar atmosphere, where NASA's TRACE satellite spotted bright blobs
of gas. Shifts in the wavelength of ultraviolet light from highly
ionized neon atoms, seen by SUMER, revealed steady wind speeds of
up to 320 000 kilometres per hour. That's fast enough to cross the
Atlantic Ocean in less than a minute.
Read more at:
http://sci.esa.int/content/news/index.cfm?aid=14&cid=37&oid=29982
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