15 more (harder) quizzes on the heliosphere:
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- How far from the Sun is the termination shock?
- When did Voyager 1 cross the termination shock into the heliopause?
- How long after Voyager 1 did Voyager 2 cross the termination shock?
- Which mission provided the data that showed that the helioshpere doesn't have a comet-like shape but is actually round?
- The study carried out by Cassini examined solar particles that had bounced back when they had interacted with interstellar gas atoms. How long did it take for those particles to come back and be detected by Cassini?
- How long did the Cassini study of those particles take?
- Outside the heliosphere lies the ...
- The Sun moves through interstellar space slower than initially thought (11,000 km/h or 7000 mph less than expected). This means that in front of the heliosphere there isn't a ...
- Instead of having a bow shock, it is now thought that the Sun's heliosphere has a ...
- During a solar minimum (decline of sunspots number), the level of cosmic rays ...
- When did Voyager 1 enter interstellar space?
- The plasma density outside the heliosphere (in interstellar space) has been measured by Voyager 1. How many times denser than inside the heliosphere is it?
- The data sent back by Voyager 1 shows that the galaxy's magnetic field is in a specific direction in reference to the solar magnetic field. It is ...
- According to the Cassini observations, the heliosphere is round, but some data from IBEX would suggest that there might be a couple of short tails. It is now theorised that the heliosphere may look a bit like a …
- How far from the Sun was Voyager 1 when it crossed the heliopause?