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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Studies

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During the last two decades, spacecraft projects and individual experiments for which Frank McDonald was a leader have contributed very significantly to the current understanding of the structure of interplanetary space and the correlation between solar and interplanetary disturbances. Studies on the IMP, HELIOS, and Pioneer spin-stabilized spacecraft and the larger attitude-stabilized Voyager spacecraft have provided data sets from which the modern view of the heliosphere has evolved. That concept in which the inner solar system is shown to be dominated by individual streams associated with specific source regions on the Sun is illustrated. As these high-speed streams overtake the preexisting solar plasma, they coalesce and modify the characteristics so that at larger heliocentric distances, these disturbances appear as radially propagating concentric shells of compressed magnetic fields and enhanced fluctuations

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 6/1/1987
• Year: 1987
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), COSMIC RAYS, CURRENT SHEETS, GEOMETRY, HELIOSPHERE, INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS, NEUTRAL SHEETS, SOLAR WIND, EXPLORER SATELLITES, PIONEER 10 SPACE PROBE, VOYAGER 1 SPACECRAFT, VOYAGER 2 SPACECRAFT, Ness, Norman F

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