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Giant Loops In The Solar Atmosphere May Trigger Sun's Magnetic Poles Reversals, New Study Reveals |
 | | Ulysses Studies The Sun's Polar Cap At Sunspot Maximum (September 7, 2000) -- The Ulysses spacecraft, on a mission to explore the Sun at extreme latitudes, today begins its investigation of the Sun's south polar region. |
| | Powerful 'Conveyer Belts' Drive Sun's 11-year Cycle, New Evidence Suggests (June 20, 2003) -- NASA and university astronomers have found evidence that the 11-year sunspot cycle is driven in part by a giant conveyor belt-like, circulating current within the... |
| | After analyzing a decade's worth of satellite data, Benevolenskaya and her colleagues may have found a crucial part of that mechanism - giant loops of hot, electrified gas that link the Sun's magnetic poles to sunspots located near the solar equator. |
| www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2002/06/020606074416.htm (1182 words) |
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