Lab Exercise 7 An Incident On the Sun

The Corona

Read  Laboratory Exercise 7 section 7.2c and answer questions 9-10.




Corona
Layer: Corona

Filter: X-Ray

Temperature: 1,000,000 K

Visible Features: Streamers, Plumes, and Loops

Figure 7.7  The Corona in X-Rays



visible

Figure 7.8  The Corona in Visible light. Sun is masked by a disk.

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