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- UVCS
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- SOME RESULTS IN A NUTSHELL
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- UVCS has made the first ultraviolet images of the extended solar corona above 1.25 solar radii from Sun center. It has
- observed about 40 spectral emissions in the extended solar corona from neutral hydrogen and ions of carbon, nitrogen,
- oxygen, magnesium, aluminium, silicon, sulphur, iron and nickel.
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- The first pictures of the extended corona in ultraviolet. The left one is of atomic hydrogen and the right one of highly
- charged oxygen. Material is shaped by the Sun's magnetic field and these 'helmet streamers' extend over 3 million km
- from the Sun's visible edge. The particles reach the velocity of 100 km/s.
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