[HN Gopher] Small-scale magnetism leads to large-scale solar atm...
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       Small-scale magnetism leads to large-scale solar atmosphere
        
       Author : thunderbong
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2023-10-10 13:00 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.esa.int)
        
       | samus wrote:
       | "Small-scale" meaning field patches of a few hundreds of km's in
       | size. All inhabitable land on Earth would fit into the picture
       | shown on that page...
        
       | dmbche wrote:
       | "The outer solar atmosphere is known as the solar corona. It is
       | termed 'quiet' when there is little appreciable solar activity
       | such as flares or coronal mass ejections. How the quiet corona
       | reaches a temperature of a million degC when the surface is just
       | at ~6000 degC is a long-running mystery."
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       | I hadn't realised it was 6,000degC to 1,000,000 degC, that's just
       | nuts!
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       | Edit0: corrected to a million, thank you kind stranger
        
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