Figure 2 (IMAGE)

New York University

Figure 2

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Ionized gas inside the Sun moves toward the poles near the surface and toward the equator at the base of the convection zone (at a depth of 200 thousand kilometres or 125 thousand miles).

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Courtesy of MPS (Z.-C. Liang).

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