Solar wind, measured.

HISTORICAL DAY · 14 SEP 2026 · THE HERO REMAINS 13 OCT 2026

SOLAR WIND · 14 SEP 2026 · OBSERVED DAY · PUBLISHED 14 OCT 2026 06:37 UTC

Speed
343 km/s
Proton density
6.0 cm⁻³
Temperature
90,300 K

Motion: speed · Population: density · Colour: temperature · Coverage 97.6%

An abstract encoding of one day's measurements. Not a physical model and not an instrument feed.

Daily history

The 61 observed days ending at the selected day. Arrow through the cells; a hatched cell is a day without an eligible record and says why. Nothing is interpolated.

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Daily values

QuantityMeanMinimumMaximumStd. deviation
Speed (km/s)343.17585853751933459744941371462147057064958440973260.54331858907232590257656787480427703273472355057398.6201009284617096990123713694744031395408875907625.904979460069723686520778824186036516805230893315
Proton density (cm⁻³)6.01823893770036347570064690527486354458198905449290.61268740892410278320312514.437890052795410156252.3474904370319113321982551648091497894742380068106
Temperature (K)90256.88984210959645927339731468716852875450721204242476.390625289870.0937543712.562299870636459825241628003406002645255125705

Canonical values as admitted; the hero strip rounds for display only.

Daily change and position

QuantityChange on previous dayRelative changePrior-30 positionPrior-60 position
Speed-46.6 km/s-11.95%— (fewer than 30 eligible prior days)— (fewer than 60 eligible prior days)
Proton density+3.7 cm⁻³+160.09%— (fewer than 30 eligible prior days)— (fewer than 60 eligible prior days)
Temperature-132,922.12 K-59.56%— (fewer than 30 eligible prior days)— (fewer than 60 eligible prior days)

Position is the percentile of this day's mean among the eligible daily means of exactly the 30 or 60 preceding days. It describes position within that window, not rarity.

Coverage

QuantityValid durationLongest gapValid samplesExcluded samples
Speed23.43 h of 24.00 h0.28 h141414
Proton density23.43 h of 24.00 h0.28 h141414
Temperature23.43 h of 24.00 h0.28 h141414

Source and lineage

ProviderNOAA
SpacecraftSOLAR1
InstrumentSWIPS
Productswips-l2
Processing statusoperational_provisional
Time basisspacecraft_utc
Series versionsolar1-swips-l2-uncorrected-v1
Method versionsolar-daily/1.0.0
Quality policy versionsolar1-range/1.0.0
EligibilityELIGIBLE
History basisreconstructed
Producer revision2
Knowledge cutoff2026-10-03T05:45:11.535147Z
Admission id3dba5899fa435ea0ff100b5ca886f70a794172c2f92dd57eaa8fe3f5ca5ada49
Admitted at2026-10-03T06:00:42.570312Z
Known to serving at2026-10-05T03:00:29.248953Z
Release idsha256:d7c04c09699d6ad3667dceb7c321f1c4cabd02d616492fab46eb4b6bbb752976
Portrait encodingsolar-portrait/2.0.0

Encoding bounds: speed 334–599 km/s (linear), density 1.73–14.36 cm⁻³ (log), temperature 69,412–357,988 K (log). Values outside saturate the visual and are marked clipped; the number shown is unchanged.

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