Meteor-like fireballs in the atmosphere of the Sun rain down like showers of shooting stars during the phenomenon of coronal rain, scientists have found.
and pressure. But things happen a little differently on the Sun, the researchers found.Because the solar atmosphere is so thin, the clumps of plasma don't experience themeteors do here on Earth. And the loops of the magnetic field act as a sort of tunnel through which the clumps travel. Therefore, the plasma balls probably reach the surface intact, causing a brief flash of heat and light when they land. This, too, was captured by SolO.. This means it's much harder to see them.
"SolO orbits close enough to the Sun that it can detect small-scale phenomena occurring within the corona, such as the effect of the rain on the corona, allowing us a precious indirect probe of the coronal environment that is crucial to understanding its composition and
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