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Aug 12, 2018 · Parker Solar Probe is designed to swoop within about 4 million miles (6.5 million kilometers) of the Sun's surface to trace the flow of energy, to study the heating of the solar corona, and to explore what accelerates the solar wind.
The Parker Solar Probe is the first spacecraft to fly into the low solar corona. It will assess the structure and dynamics of the Sun's coronal plasma and magnetic field, the energy flow that heats the solar corona and impels the solar wind, and the mechanisms that accelerate energetic particles.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission will revolutionize our understanding of the Sun. Parker Solar Probe will provide new data on solar activity and make critical contributions to our ability to forecast major space-weather events that impact life on Earth.
Mar 7, 2023 · NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) will be the first-ever mission to “touch” the sun. The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, will travel directly into the sun’s atmosphere about 4 million miles from our star’s surface.
Dec 15, 2021 · The Parker Solar Probe is one of the most audacious missions ever mounted by the agency. Launched three years ago, its goal is to make repeated, and ever closer, passes of the Sun. The spacecraft...
Parker Solar Probe is an extraordinary and historic mission, exploring what is arguably the last region of the solar system to be visited by a spacecraft, the Sun's outer atmosphere or corona as it extends out into space.
Dec 11, 2019 · Parker Solar Probe measured sudden reversals in the Sun’s magnetic field. These events, called “switchbacks,” may provide clues to the processes that heat the Sun’s outer atmosphere to millions of degrees. Credits: NASA/GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez.
Jul 30, 2018 · Facing several-million-degree Fahrenheit temperatures, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe — named after Eugene Parker, the University of Chicago physicist who first predicted the solar wind’s existence — will directly sample solar particles and magnetic fields in an attempt to resolve some of the most important questions facing the field of ...
Oct 29, 2018 · Scientists with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission have uncovered significant new clues about the origins of the solar wind – a continual stream of charged particles released from the Sun that fills the solar system.
Dec 14, 2021 · For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science.
