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OVER the past few years observational data for a large-scale meridional structure of the solar wind have been accumulated1–3. Space-probe measurements have revealed heliolatitudinal effects at 1 AU, but little is known about the wind flow pattern at small radial distances, just outside the corona. Here we report the existence of a solar equatorial belt, from which few protons are emitted, and we discuss its causes.
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VLADIMIRSKY, B., LEVITSKY, L. A possible large-scale meridional structure in the helioequatorial solar wind. Nature 260, 27–28 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/260027a0
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