WASHINGTON (Floresku.com) -The United States Space Agency (NASA) made a new history by sending the ‘Parker Solar Probe’, a spacecraft to successfully touch the sun. This achievement is a new history of space flight missions.
A big step for the science of the solar system and mankind has been carved out through this latest achievement.
This event will help scientists to understand the sun and reveal important information about its influence on the solar system, as quoted from NASA’s official statement on December 14, 2021, .
In his report, Parker had been traveling through the corona virus since April. However, scientists need several months to obtain and collect data for further confirmation.
In 2018, the aircraft was launched after flying over seven times. On its eighth flyby, the spacecraft managed to enter the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona.
The temperature of the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere is 1 million degrees Celsius. By entering and sampling the sun’s atmosphere, Parker Solar Probe achieved scientific achievements similar to the moon landing, according to reports of mission scientists at a press conference at the annual meeting American Geophysical Union (AGU) Tuesday 14 December 2021.
“Imagine you are sitting on the beach looking out at the ocean and wondering what’s in there. This is basically what scientists have been doing for decades, questioning the mysteries of the solar corona,” said Nicola Fox, director of the Heliophysics Division at NASA’s Mission Directorate. TrenAsia.com from LiveScience on December 17, 2021.
Nicola Fox revealed, after three years since launch, we have finally arrived, humanity has managed to touch the sun.
NASA’s official website in its statement said: Parker Solar Probe collects data that pinpoints the origin of a sinuous structure in the solar wind called switchbacks.
Switchbacks is a sea of currents and waves that have thorns and was discovered in 2019. This event occurs due to a rapid reversal of the Sun’s magnetic field that reverses direction and forms a kind of tortuous mountain.
The data shows the place of origin switchbacks is on the visible surface of the Sun – the photosphere. This discovery is important for understanding the solar wind that races through the solar system and shapes the space weather system.
Understand where and how components of the fast solar wind arise, and if they are related to switchbacks, could help scientists answer a long-standing solar mystery: how the corona is heated to millions of degrees, even hotter than the sun’s surface itself.
This trip to Corona which only lasted a few hours was one of the missions that had been planned. Parker will continue to circle the Sun and is targeted to reach 3.83 million miles from the surface.
The next flyby expected to run in January 2022 is likely to continue the adventure Parker in the corona.
This article was published on www.trenasia.com by Fadel Surur on 18 Dec 2021
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