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SDO Spots Extra Energy in the Sun's Corona
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NASA release July 27, 2011 These jets, known as spicules, were captured in an SDO image on April 25, 2010. Combined with the energy from ripples in the magnetic field, they may contain enough energy to power the solar wind that streams from the sun toward Earth at 1.5 million miles per hour. Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA Like giant strands of seaweed some 32,000 miles high, material shooting up from the sun sways back and forth with the atmosphere.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineSDO Spots Extra Energy in the Sun's Corona. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001831.
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