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Originally Posted by Baloo
Aside the fact that the images are taken with very narrow filters I don't think that those arcs will emit blackbody radiation:
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It seems to me that the low density of those arcs qualifies them mostly as 'excited gas' than 'solid body'. Maybe someone could clarify this question... |
I was really hoping you would join this discussion Baloo. Based on my last post to Nereid, specifically from a gas model perspective, how do you know the transition layer that Lockheed images is not the same transition layer that Dr. Kosovichev is imaging?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1641599.stm