The Parker Solar Probe is getting closer to our star than any vehicle has before.
will embark on its journey to the center of our Solar System
Parker is tasked with investigating the mechanics of the breakaway effect and why the atmosphere is so much hotter than its source. “We’ve tried studying these things from Earth, and all of the signatures that we need to see, all the information, gets smeared out over the 93 million miles on the way to Earth,” Eric Christian, the senior research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, tellsPlans to send a probe into the Sun’s corona date back to 1958 and the very start of NASA.
Better understanding these mechanisms could have real-world applications here on Earth since solar wind is hitting us all the time. “It’s like we’re a boulder in a fast-moving stream,” says Fox. “We’re downstream of the mouth of the river, but we are feeling the effects of this fast-moving solar wind.” Typically, we’re shielded from the wind by a large magnetic field that surrounds Earth, which acts a bit like a cosmic umbrella.
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