Proba-3 finds slow solar wind speeding up near the Sun
TL;DR
ESA's Proba-3 mission, using artificial eclipses to study the Sun's inner corona, has revealed slow solar wind speeding up to 250–500 km/s near the Sun—three to four times faster than previously thought—with thousands of hours of data still to be analyzed.
- First Proba-3 science: surprisingly speedy solar wind European Space Agency
- Proba-3’s First Results Are Already Rewriting What We Thought We Knew About Solar Wind Space Daily
- First Proba-3 science: Surprisingly speedy solar wind found in inner corona Phys.org
- Streamers around the Sun European Space Agency
- Proba-3 sees slow solar wind speeding close to the Sun European Space Agency
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