SIMULATEDDSCOVR · L1 · 00:00 UTC

SOLAR WIND

The plasma streaming off the Sun, right now — read a million miles upstream and drawn as it flows.

SPEED465km/s
DENSITY6.9p/cm³
Bz1.7nTnorth
Bt4.2nT
PRESSURE2.49nPa
TEMP65kK
UNSETTLEDA little southward tilt — restless, watchable.

Each streak is a parcel of solar wind. Its speed and density are the live numbers; the field warms from cyan toward green and magenta as the interplanetary Bz turns south and the wind starts to couple with Earth's magnetosphere — the little world on the right, its bow shock pressed in by the stream.

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