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Electric currents certainly flow in the corona. The idea that the corona is heated by electrical heating in turbulent current sheets goes back to Parker in the 1970s. Very large currents can be...

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Does the Parker Solar Probe mission investigate the flow of currents near the...

Does the Parker Solar Probe mission investigate the flow of currents near the sun? If so, were equivalents of Birkeland currents detected? What were the values of these currents?

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