Fig. 5.
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Cartoon illustrating the plasma heating in the lower atmosphere by chromospheric evaporation and the transmission of the heated plasma upward into the corona and the solar wind. The chromospheric evaporation is triggered by the energy released during magnetic reconnection in the corona. The downward arrows represent the high-energy electrons being accelerated.
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