Submission + - Solar Wind Blowing Lightly (sciencemag.org)
wagr writes: Phil Berardelli, for ScienceNOW Daily News, writes:
Scientists monitoring a joint European Space Agency (ESA)-NASA solar probe in the waning months of its 18-year mission have collected a fortuitous but startling set of data. The solar wind--a steady stream of charged particles flowing outward from the sun in all directions at about 1.5 million kilometers per hour--is currently blowing at the lowest intensity ever recorded.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/924/3
Scientists monitoring a joint European Space Agency (ESA)-NASA solar probe in the waning months of its 18-year mission have collected a fortuitous but startling set of data. The solar wind--a steady stream of charged particles flowing outward from the sun in all directions at about 1.5 million kilometers per hour--is currently blowing at the lowest intensity ever recorded.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/924/3
