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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe

As Parker Solar Probe files around the sun, it finds abrupt reversals in the direction of the sun’s magnetic fields. These S-shaped bends in the sun’s magnetic field are very common in the solar wind close to the sun, but are absent inside the corona.
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Parker Solar Probe reveals why the sun’s corona is weirdly hot

Amit Malewar

The sun's crown-like atmosphere can be 200 times hotter than the sun's surface.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has completed its 16th science orbit
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Milestone: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completes its 16th orbit of the Sun

Amit Malewar

What can come within 5.3 million miles of the solar surface?

Image showing explosion from sun
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe uncovered clues about the origins of the solar wind

Amit Malewar

This finding is helping scientists better understand the 60-year-old mystery.

Unprocessed image of comet NEOWISE
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured a unique view of comet NEOWISE

Amit Malewar

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe spies newly-discovered comet NEOWISE.

Illustration of Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben
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Parker Solar Probe completes fourth closest approach of the Sun

Amit Malewar

The probe’s heat shield reached new record temperatures as well.

Parker Solar Probe’s FIELDS instrument can eavesdrop on the electric and magnetic fluctuations caused by plasma waves, and it can “hear” when the waves and particles interact with one another, recording frequency and amplitude information about these plasma waves that scientists can transform into sound files
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Sound of the solar wind from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe

Amit Malewar

First whispers of the solar wind’s birth.

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First science data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is out

Amit Malewar

Parker Solar Probe (PSP) data is available in the archive and selected data sets are in CDAWeb.

Parker Solar Probe
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Parker Solar Probe breaks record, becomes closest spacecraft to Sun

Amit Malewar

On 29 October 2018, at 1:04 pm EDT (17:04 UTC), Parker Solar Probe just made a history by making the closest ever approach to...

touching the sun
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Traveling to the Sun: Why won’t Parker solar probe melt?

Pranjal Malewar

This summer, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will launch to travel closer to the Sun, deeper into the solar atmosphere. The main objective of the mission is...

The custom shipping container holding NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is prepared for unloading from the C-17 of the United States Air Force’s 436th Airlift Wing after landing at Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville, Florida, on the morning of April 3, 2018. Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman
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NASA’s mission to touch the sun arrives in the sunshine state

Amit Malewar

In order to unlock the mysteries of the sun, NASA made an announced about their Parker Solar Probe mission. The main objective of the mission...

NASA Unveils Parker Solar Probe Spacecraft that will Touch Our Sun
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NASA Unveiling Parker Solar Probe Spacecraft that will Touch Our Sun

Amit Malewar

In order to unlock the mysteries of the sun, Nasa made an announced about their Parker Solar Probe mission. The main objective of the mission...

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