Parker Solar Probe touches the Sun for the first time, bringing new discoveries
The spacecraft, built and operated by APL, has made its first pass through the Sun's upper atmosphere, an area called the corona
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The spacecraft, built and operated by APL, has made its first pass through the Sun's upper atmosphere, an area called the corona
The Parker Solar Probe has entered, for the first time, the Sun’s magnetic atmosphere, where it started to gather data that could unravel the greatest mysteries of solar physics.
NASA video explaining the latest discoveries of the Parker Solar Probe. (Video by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) For the first time in history, a
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E-Mail IMAGE: University of Iowa physicists have gained new insights about the sun's electric field. The researchers measured electrons streaming from the sun, a main constituent of the solar wind, to determine... view more Credit: Jasper Halekas lab, University of Iowa As the Parker Solar Probe ventures closer to the sun, we are learning new things about our home star. In a new study, physicists led by the University of Iowa report the first definitive measurements of the sun's electric field, and how the electric field interacts with the solar wind, the fast-flowing current of c...