Motions in the sun reveal inner workings of sunspot cycle » sun_cellmod

Posted: June 26, 2020 by oldbrew | Full size is 1440 × 1440 pixels

Ionized gas inside the Sun moves toward the poles near the surface and toward the equator at the base of the convection zone (at a depth of 200,000 km/125,000 miles).
Credit: MPS (Z.-C. Liang)


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