Word: flocculi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth's storms are connected in some way with changes in the sun's radiation. They develop just after the sun's surface shows "calcium flocculi": a nubbly appearance that signals an unusually large output of ultraviolet light. Shortly after the sun gets nubbly, the high white clouds show...
...Mintz collected records of Jupiter's spottedness and made charts to show its variation over the years. Then he did the same for variations in the sun's flocculi. The two curves matched strikingly. After nearly every burst of ultraviolet from the sun, Jupiter broke out in spots...
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