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Originally Posted by freebeard
In the same way that illustration depicted the Heliosphere before plantary probes passed beyond the Hot Hydrogen Wall
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* in addition to hydrogen and helium, the Kill Zone 'wall' deals with over 150 species of interstellar molecules.
* last week, the notion of a non-spherical Heliopause was brought up.
* the Heliopause has a diameter of 18.6-billion miles, something a space probe would be challenged to image in real time, and from all vantage points.
* the solar wind has:
1) slow-speed flow
2) high-speed flow
3) overtaking compressive magnetized plasma
4) co-rotating interaction regions ( CIR )
5) shockwaves
6) accelerations
7) rarifactions
8) rotating on a 26-day cycle along the ecliptic
9) the surface of the Sun does not exhibit uniform latitudinal velocity
10) As a concession to conceptual simplification, one might offer a time-averaged spherical representation of the 'shape' of the Heliopause, as 'snapshots' do not exist