For the first time in history, people touched the Sun through a probe. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew through our star’s outer atmosphere, the so-called corona. The footage from several days shows the environment in which the spacecraft flew at that moment. “It measured particle flux and magnetic fields,” NASA reports.
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People touched the sun for the first time. The proof is the footage from the probe passing through the solar corona. | Video: NASA, CTK
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“We see evidence of corona abundance in magnetic field data, solar wind data, and visual images. We can actually see the probe fly through coronal structures that can be observed during a total solar eclipse,” said Nour Raouafi, a Parker scientist.
In fact, the spacecraft flew through the corona in April during the eighth of the planned 24 orbits around the Sun. It took several months for the data to reach the scientists, and several more took verification. The probe has already completed the ninth and tenth flights.
NASA manager Thomas Zurbuchen spoke of a “monumental moment” and a “remarkable success.” The data will help scientists explain why the corona temperature, which reaches millions of degrees Celsius, is several orders of magnitude higher than the temperature around 5500 degrees on the star’s surface.
The spacecraft set out for the Sun from Cape Canaveral in Florida in August 2018. The project, with a budget of around $ 1.5 billion (34 billion crowns), aims to gain new insights about our star, which will better predict solar storms that could threaten terrestrial grids. or satellite navigation. The information obtained could also refine future weather forecasts.
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