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- THE MAIN RESULTS IN BRIEF SO FAR:
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- ∑ the first images of a star's convection zone and the subsurface structure of
- sunspots
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- ∑ the most precise measurements of the temperature structure and rotation
- profile in the solar interior, including the discovery of a polar jet stream
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- ∑ the discovery of a magnetic carpet on the solar surface
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- ∑ the first measurements of the acceleration profile of the slow and fast
- solar wind
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- ∑ the identification of the source regions of the fast solar wind in the
- magnetically "open" regions at the Sun's poles
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- ∑ the most detailed view to date of the dynamics in the outer solar
- atmosphere, including the discovery of coronal "Moreton waves" and solar
- tornadoes
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- ∑ most spectacular images and movies of coronal mass ejections