Friday, July 11, 2014

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News


New window into high-energy processes on the sun

Posted: 09 Jul 2014 03:22 PM PDT

Understanding the sun from afar isn't easy. NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft -- which orbits Mercury, and so is as close as 28 million miles from the sun versus Earth's 93 million miles -- is near enough to the sun to detect solar neutrons that are created in solar flares.

No comments:

Post a Comment