Re: Zetas RIGHT Again! (Summary 2)
In message <onpu617duz.fsf@cow.physics.wisc.edu>, Craig Markwardt writes:
>
> Nancy Lieder <nancy@zetatalk.com> writes:
>> Then, quietly sitting on the NASA web site, was the recent statement
>> that indeed, the Zetas were correct, as the Ulysses probe had found the
>> Sun had NOT reversed polarity, as expected, during its recent passes of
>> the south and north poles of the Sun in 2001. Per the NASA web site:
>>
>> JPL September 9, 2001
>>
>> Space physicists predict gusty winds for the next
>> few months at the Sun's north pole, an area that
>> will be observed when the Ulysses spacecraft
>> passes over it starting on Aug. 31 [2001]. This
>> pass over the pole occurs at a time of solar
>> maximum ... This will be Ulysses' second pass
>> over the Sun's north pole. It completed a circuit
>> of the Sun in 1996 ... In 1995, Ulysses saw
>> strong and simple magnetic fields at both poles
>> of the Sun. ...
>>
>> As Ulysses passed by the south pole of <===
>> the sun a few months ago, scientists <===
>> expected to find that magnetic lines <===
>> were pointing outward, because <===
>> observations from Earth show that <===
>> the magnetic field has already <===
>> reversed at the Sun's surface. <===
>> Instead, they found that they <===
>> magnetic lines were still pointing <===
>> inward, just as they had been <===
>> Throughout solar minimum. <===
>
> * The orbit of Ulysses is from 1.5-5 AU, so you can't really consider
> that Ullyses is measuring the surface magnetic field of the
> sun, but rather at a point more distant than the earth. [ref. 1]
>
> * From my quick look at the Ullyses spacecraft page [ref. 2], I find
> that Ullyses does not have a magnetometer. They must be attempting
> to infer the magnetic field from solar wind data.
Did they delete them? The Ulysses Data Book refers to two triaxial
magnetometers; a fluxgate instrument and a Vector Helium magnetometer.