Aresearch.85
net.columbia
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!research!sjb
Sat Oct 10 10:06:38 1981
Hot Zone
Voyager II has discovered a ringed zone ranging from 170,000
to 450,000 miles above the planet Saturn which contains the
hottest gases known in this solar system. The gases range
in temperature from 600 million to 1 billion degrees Fahrenheit,
dwarfing the sun's surface temperate of 10,000. They are
twice as hot as the plasma cloud on Jupiter, discovered in
1979 by Voyager.
Scientists hope that this may provide an even better source
of energy than fusion power, the kind made by the sun.
The spacecraft was not destroyed on passing through the zone
because the area is not dense, and only a few particles hit
the ship.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen <
[email protected]>
of
http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/
This Usenet Oldnews Archive
article may be copied and distributed freely, provided:
1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles.
2. The following notice remains appended to each copy:
The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996
Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.
