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ROPA - Update - February 11, 2007
We are anxiously awaiting a promised high-speed stream from a coronal hole on the sun which should hit us sometime today, but it didn't get here during the window tonight. There was a fairly impressive lack of solar wind: see http://sec.noaa.gov/ace/MAG_SWEPAM_7d.html and note the dropout in solar wind density (3rd panel) for much of the 11th. More of a solar wisp than a solar wind. Strong activity promised for tomorrow, so we'll see.
Here are some pictures of the sledding run the experiment team has been building on the hill between TM and the rocket assembly building.
