In 1962, the Mariner II space probe travelling toward Venus detected electrically charged particles moving through interplanetary space.
Then the Ulysses solar probe, launched in 1990, discovered the solar wind came in two varieties—an irregular slow flow of 400 km/sec, and a fast one up to 800 km/sec.
The slow solar wind typically comes from the Sun’s equatorially located ‘streamer belt’, while the fast type is from the relatively peaceful surface seen when looking down through coronal holes at the surface of the photosphere.
Author and electrical engineer Donald E. Scott, PhD, details the intricacies of the dual nature of solar winds, and how his Electric Sun Model solves the mystery of the extreme temperature of the lower corona—which has baffled astrophysics for decades.
SOURCE MATERIAL
Chapter 4: Origins and Properties of the Solar Winds
“The Interconnected Cosmos”
— a new book by Donald E. Scott
Available now at StickmanOnStone.com
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