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	Sun's Rain?

celestialdancer

11-8-2009 3:15 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c1b46721-2724-469e-888e-d5e2aa461410/64BB5ABC-8604-4DD6-8859-8088CAD633C9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/08/suns-rain/" href="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/08/suns-rain/" style="font-size: 11px;">celestialdancer.amplify.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/08/suns-rain/"><P>The article is way too long to clip though you may find it fascinating.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/08/suns-rain/"><DIV align="center" class="Clog_Content_Item_Image"><IMG width="300" alt="SOHO/ESA/NASA)" src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/clog_clip_cache/amplify.com/0BD1F08D-90AA-451F-9F16-3B55176152C6/3AEC7100-A664-4D05-BC55-DACA4FB85A31" /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/08/suns-rain/"><P class="infuse">THE sun’s million-degree outer atmosphere is the last place you would expect to find rain, yet a form of it does occur there. The stuff could help explain why the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, is much hotter than closer in.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/08/suns-rain/"><P class="infuse">Coronal rain is made of dense knots thousands of kilometres across consisting of relatively cold gas, at tens or hundreds of thousands of degrees C, which pours down towards the sun’s visible surface from the outer atmosphere at speeds exceeding 100 kilometres per second. “There’s just this constant rain of these blobs that seem to be coming down from high up,” says Judy Karpen of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/64BB5ABC-8604-4DD6-8859-8088CAD633C9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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