SDO Spots Extra Energy in the Sun's Corona [detail]

NASA release July 27, 2011

These jets, known as spicules, were captured in an SDO image on April 25, 2010. Combined with the energy from ripples in the magnetic field, they may contain enough energy to power the solar wind that streams from the sun toward Earth at 1.5 million miles per hour.

Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA

To see a full disk view go here: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5982663752/in/photostream/

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