ToSeek
2004-Jul-09, 05:52 PM
Tracking Halloween Blast Wave (http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid= 1068&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0)
A fleet of spacecraft dispersed throughout the solar system gave the best picture to date of the effects of blast waves from solar storms as they propagate through the solar system.
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The most recent reports come from the Voyagers, which are near an unexplored region where the solar wind becomes turbulent as it crashes into the thin gas between stars. Slowing as it plowed into the outer heliosphere (a large bubble of space around the sun which is "blown up" by fast-moving solar wind), the blast wave reached Voyager 2 at seven billion miles (11 billion kilometers) from the sun on April 28 and continued toward Voyager 1 at almost nine billion miles (14.5 billion km) from the sun.
A fleet of spacecraft dispersed throughout the solar system gave the best picture to date of the effects of blast waves from solar storms as they propagate through the solar system.
...
The most recent reports come from the Voyagers, which are near an unexplored region where the solar wind becomes turbulent as it crashes into the thin gas between stars. Slowing as it plowed into the outer heliosphere (a large bubble of space around the sun which is "blown up" by fast-moving solar wind), the blast wave reached Voyager 2 at seven billion miles (11 billion kilometers) from the sun on April 28 and continued toward Voyager 1 at almost nine billion miles (14.5 billion km) from the sun.