TRIBUNNEWSCOM — Historic events for NASA, spacecraft Parker Solar Probe finally managed to touch the sun.
This incident is the first time that an aircraft belonging to NASA managed to enter the atmosphere of the sun.
The spacecraft ‘touches’ the sun’s upper atmosphere or solar corona to sample particles and their magnetic field.
“The Parker Solar Probe ‘touching the sun’ is a meaningful moment for solar science and a truly remarkable achievement,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. .
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According to him, this historical record not only provides deeper knowledge about the evolution of the sun and its impact on Solar system, but all that is learned about our own stars also teaches more about the stars in the rest of the universe.
The success of the Parker Solar Probe, which researchers say has actually happened last April, but they only announced it on December 14, 2021 yesterday at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2021 in New Orleans.
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According to the study published in Physical Review Letters, Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018 and is getting closer to the sun.
The spacecraft managed to reach the sun’s corona, where temperatures can reach a million degrees Celsius or even higher.
Not only that, Parker Solar Probe reveals new discoveries about the sun, including the discovery of magnetic zigzag structures in the solar wind called switchbacks in 2019.
Now, thanks to Parker’s latest close approach to the sun, the spacecraft is helping scientists determine that this transition originates from the sun’s surface.
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