On its 10th flyby of the sun, the Parker Solar Probe hit record speeds that would see it get from New York to London in just over half a minute.
, during which it got a"gravity assist" from the second planet from the sun. But, the Parker Solar probe's mission isn't just to set speed and distance records and then break them again.
One of the most curious things about our stars is the fact that the corona is hotter than its surface, or the photosphere, which exists 100 miles below it. Conventional logic suggests that the deeper into a star we probe the hotter it should become, so the reason why its outermost layers are hotter than its surface is a pressing concern and something that the Parker Solar Probe could unlock.
"What's exciting about this is it's greatly improving our understanding of the innermost regions of our heliosphere, giving us insight into an environment that, until now, was a total mystery," said Nour Raouafi, a Parker Solar Probe project scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
This helps it assess the characteristics of dust in a region of the solar system that no craft has ever before traversed during its record-breaking mission.
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