Definition of Penumbra

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Penumbra

The term 'Penumbra' as it applies to the area of the weather can be defined as ' In solar-terrestrial terms, the sunspot area that may surround the darker umbra or umbrae. It consists of linear bright and dark elements radial from the sunspot umbra'.

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