Earth Sciences 1086F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Magnesium, Robotic Spacecraft, Red Giant
15 Apr 2016
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There so no real surface of the sun, it is gas which becomes denser as you move the centre. Photosphere: visible outer layer of a star, represents the depth within that gas at which see no deeper toward the core. Friday, january 15, 2016 made of toward we can. Chromosphere: a layer surrounding the photosphere about 2,500 km thick of gases; is the irregular layer of gases that extends up and away from the photosphere. Corona: point where the chromosphere merges into the outermost region of the sun"s atmosphere, extends for millions of km into space above the photosphere; can only been seen during a solar eclipse. Diameter about 1. 4 million km ( about 109 times the diameter of the earth) Volume about 1. 3 million times that of earth. Mass is about 330,000 times that of earth ( the sun contains 99. 8% of the solar.
