Interplanetary rendezvous at a solar wind stream

Luca Sorriso-Valvo^{1

2}, Francesco Malara³

Affiliations

¹ CNR-Institute for Plasma Science and Technology, National Research Council, Bari, Italy.
² KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ University of Calabria, Rende, Italy.

Comment

Luca Sorriso-Valvo et al. Science. 2024.

. 2024 Aug 30;385(6712):928-930.

doi: 10.1126/science.adr5854. Epub 2024 Aug 29.

Luca Sorriso-Valvo^{1

2}, Francesco Malara³

¹ CNR-Institute for Plasma Science and Technology, National Research Council, Bari, Italy.
² KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ University of Calabria, Rende, Italy.

Abstract

A rare alignment of two spacecraft near the Sun captures energetics in the heliosphere.

In situ observations of large-amplitude Alfvén waves heating and accelerating the solar wind.
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