Aresearch.85 net.columbia utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!research!sjb Sat Oct 10 10:06:38 1981 Hot Zone Voyager II has discovered a ringed zone ranging from 170,000 to 450,000 miles above the planet Saturn which contains the hottest gases known in this solar system. The gases range in temperature from 600 million to 1 billion degrees Fahrenheit, dwarfing the sun's surface temperate of 10,000. They are twice as hot as the plasma cloud on Jupiter, discovered in 1979 by Voyager. Scientists hope that this may provide an even better source of energy than fusion power, the kind made by the sun. The spacecraft was not destroyed on passing through the zone because the area is not dense, and only a few particles hit the ship. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.