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Why don't particles from surrounding interstellar medium show up in the graph as matching the pressure of the solar wind?
by emchammer 3y ago
Why don't particles from surrounding interstellar medium show up in the graph as matching the pressure of the solar wind?
- dotnet00 3y agoPresumably simply because there isn't as much density. The interstellar medium particles must be less dense but more energetic, thus producing the pressure that causes the heliosphere to be restricted.
- pdonis 3y agoAs I understand it, the much smaller number of particles hitting Voyager now are the interstellar medium. The rate of particles hitting Voyager is not a measure of the pressure of the ambient plasma.