Lecture Questions Chapter 15

Question 3 Solar wind particles can be captured by the Earth's magnetosphere. When these particles spiral down along the magnetic field into the atmosphere, they are responsible for:

aurorae (northern and southern lights)

Question 2 The Sun's chromosphere and corona were discovered

during total eclipses of the Sun

Question 1 The granulation pattern that astronomers have observed on the surface of the Sun tells us that:

hot material must be rising from the Sun's hotter interior