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Wind that blows from close to the surface of the Sun has now been traced back to its source by a daredevil solar probe rivaling Icarus in its audacity.
The Parker Solar Probe found the source of rapid solar winds' intense plasma explosions, which helps explain the solar wind's origins and predict solar storms.
Using data collected by NASA's sun-touching Parker Solar Probe, scientists have tracked the "fast" solar wind back to showerhead-like funnels generated by coronal holes.
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun.
For the first time in history, we could finally tell the tale of the never-before-seen data that lies on the heart of our Solar System, the Sun. NASA's Parker Solar Probe becomes the first spacecraft to 'touch' the sun, 60 years after NASA had set this goal.