Posted on 10/10/2022 2:10:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Data from a spacecraft orbiting Earth has revealed ripple structures in the termination shock and heliopause: shifting regions of space that mark one of the boundaries between the space inside the Solar System, and...interstellar space.
...Sun affects the space around it...solar wind, a constant supersonic flow of ionized plasma. It blows out past the planets and the Kuiper Belt, eventually petering out in the great emptiness between the stars.
The point at which this flow falls below the speed at which sound waves can travel through the diffuse interstallar medium is called the termination shock, and the point at which it is no longer strong enough to push back against the very slight pressure of interstellar space is the heliopause.
Both Voyager probes have crossed the heliopause and are, effectively, now cruising through interstellar space, providing us the first in situ measurements of this shifting boundary.
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX)
IBEX measures energized neutral atoms, which are created when the Sun's solar wind collides with the interstellar wind at the Solar System boundary. Some of those atoms are catapulted further out into space, while others are flung back at Earth. Once the strength of the solar wind that produced them is taken into account, energized neutral particles that return our way can be used to map the shape of the boundary, a bit like cosmic echolocation.
Previous maps of the structure of the heliosphere have relied on long-scale measures of the evolution of solar wind pressure and energetic neutral atom emissions, which resulted in a smoothing of the boundary in both space and time. But in 2014, over a period of roughly six months, the dynamic pressure of the solar wind increased by roughly 50 percent.
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If I knew the way, I would take you home.
I scanned first to make sure, but there you go!
“Those aren’t pillows!!!”
ClearCase_guy posted:
Ripple in still water
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow
Hi, Ku!
Here are a few of those strange Ripples:
Flatipple sangria & RippleChampipple: Champagne & Ripple. Or, Ginger Ale & Ripple.
Manischipple: Manischewitz & Ripple.
Beaujolipple: Beaujolais & Ripple.
Cripple: Cream & Ripple.
Stripple: Straight Ripple.
Flapple: Flat Ripple. Or, Sangria.
Muscatipple: Muscatel & Ripple.
I will assume the history channel will be sending out a team out for a live feed and they have hired Geraldo from fox and the Giorgio the hair guy to provide commentary and play by play.
Ripple's were always strange.
Thank you it’s been a while since I saw Hardware Wars. 😀
Jesus is coming back and he’s p.ssed
All these years i thought ripple was a generic term for booze, and the only time i heard it mentioned was by Fred G Sanford
"IBEX"
The Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
You’ve probably never heard of Thunderbird or Boone’s Farm either.
Seinfeld - the Raquel Welch in the lifeboat with the Pope
Yada yada yada, “those aren’t buoys”....
Strange Nipple”s?
Yes those I heard of but never tried
Fudge? Or just Raspberry?
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