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Film, Video From Sun to Solar Wind: The Perplexing Solar Corona and the Space Environment It Creates

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Title

  • From Sun to Solar Wind: The Perplexing Solar Corona and the Space Environment It Creates

Summary

  • Nicholeen Viall discusses recent observations from STEREO and the Parker Solar Probe, which show the constantly roiling complex dynamic of the sun's atmosphere at work, even when the sun is relatively quiet. NASA Observatories examining the atmosphere of the sun are revealing extraordinary detail in the solar corona. Material from this mysteriously super-hot outer layer expands outward to become the solar wind, accelerating to beyond the speed of sound and bathing the planets in plasma and magnetic fields.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2019-11-07.

Notes

  • -  Classification: Science.
  • -  Classification: Technology.
  • -  Nicholeen Viall.
  • -  Recorded on 2019-11-07.
  • -  Nicholeen Viall is a research astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

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  • 1 online resource

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  • 2024696697

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  • video
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  • online text

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Library Of Congress, and Technology Library Of Congress. Science. From Sun to Solar Wind: The Perplexing Solar Corona and the Space Environment It Creates. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-07, 2019. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696697/.

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Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Science, T. (2019) From Sun to Solar Wind: The Perplexing Solar Corona and the Space Environment It Creates. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-07. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696697/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Technology Library Of Congress. Science. From Sun to Solar Wind: The Perplexing Solar Corona and the Space Environment It Creates. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -11-07, 2019. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024696697/>.