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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe : In News

Kumari Sonali

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe : In News

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe recently set a historic record by flying closer to the Sun than any other man-made object, reaching speeds of 430,000 mph and withstanding temperatures up to 982°C.

  • It was Launched in 2018, a car-sized robotic spacecraft, is named after American solar astrophysicist Eugene Newman Parker.
  • This is the first NASA mission named for a living researcher and it’s humanity’s first mission to explore within 3.8 million miles of the Sun’s corona.
  • The Probe uses an advanced carbon-composite heat shield to withstand extreme temperatures.
  • The Parker Solar Probe aims to approach within 6.5 million kilometers of the Sun to study energy flow, solar corona heating.
  • It also investigates the source of solar winds, high-speed streams of charged particles that affect space weather.
  • To investigate the Sun’s corona, and understand why it is hotter than the Sun’s surface, a long-standing mystery in astrophysics.
  • To determine the structure and dynamics of the plasma and magnetic fields at the sources of the solar wind.
  • To explore mechanisms that accelerate and transport energetic particles.

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