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The Solar Wind outside the Plane of the Ecliptic

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The scintillation of radio sources caused by the interplanetary medium offers a means of studying the motion of the solar wind well away from the plane of the ecliptic, where direct measurements have so far been confined. Observations from a triangular arrangement of radio receivers (on 81.5 Mc/s) suggest that the solar wind is faster over the solar poles than in the plane of the ecliptic.

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DENNISON, P., HEWISH, A. The Solar Wind outside the Plane of the Ecliptic. Nature 213, 343–346 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213343a0

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