News tagged with nanoflares
Tiny Flares Responsible for Outsized Heat of Sun's Atmosphere
(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar physicists at NASA have confirmed that small, sudden bursts of heat and energy, called nanoflares, cause temperatures in the thin, translucent gas of the sun's atmosphere to reach millions ...
Aug 14, 2009 |
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Hinode's first light... and five more years
(PhysOrg.com) -- On October 28, 2006, the Hinode solar mission was at last ready. The spacecraft launched on September 22, but such missions require a handful of diagnostics before the instruments can be turned ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Warm Coronal Loops Offer Clue to Mysteriously Hot Solar Atmosphere
Scientists at NASA reveal a new understanding of the mysterious mechanism responsible for heating the outer part of the solar atmosphere, the corona, to million degree temperatures.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 29, 2008 |
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