Re: Zetas RIGHT Again! (Summary 2)

In message <onpu617duz.fsf@cow.physics.wisc.edu>, Craig Markwardt writes:
>
> Nancy Lieder <nancy@zetatalk.com> writes:
>> Then, quietly sitting on the NASA web site, was the recent statement
>> that indeed, the Zetas were correct, as the Ulysses probe had found the
>> Sun had NOT reversed polarity, as expected, during its recent passes of
>> the south and north poles of the Sun in 2001.  Per the NASA web site:
>>
>> JPL September 9, 2001
>>
>>     Space physicists predict gusty winds for the next
>>     few months at the Sun's north pole, an area that
>>     will be observed when the Ulysses spacecraft
>>     passes over it starting on Aug. 31 [2001]. This
>>     pass over the pole occurs at a time of solar
>>     maximum ... This will be Ulysses' second pass
>>     over the Sun's north pole. It completed a circuit
>>     of the Sun in 1996  ... In 1995, Ulysses saw
>>     strong and simple magnetic fields at both poles
>>     of the Sun.  ...
>>
>>     As Ulysses passed by the south pole of <===
>>     the sun a few months ago, scientists   <===
>>     expected to find that magnetic lines   <===
>>     were pointing outward, because         <===
>>     observations from Earth show that      <===
>>     the magnetic field has already         <===
>>     reversed at the Sun's surface.         <===
>>     Instead, they found that they          <===
>>     magnetic lines were still pointing     <===
>>     inward, just as they had been          <===
>>     Throughout solar minimum.              <===
>
> * The orbit of Ulysses is from 1.5-5 AU, so you can't really consider
>   that Ullyses is measuring the surface magnetic field of the
>   sun, but rather at a point more distant than the earth. [ref. 1]
>
> * From my quick look at the Ullyses spacecraft page [ref. 2], I find
>   that Ullyses does not have a magnetometer.  They must be attempting
>   to infer the magnetic field from solar wind data.

Did they delete them? The Ulysses Data Book refers to two triaxial 
magnetometers; a fluxgate instrument and a Vector Helium magnetometer.