Parker Solar Probe and the birth of the solar wind
Monday, July 30, 2018 - 14:30
in Astronomy & Space
This summer, humanity embarks on its first mission to touch the Sun: A spacecraft will be launched into the Sun's outer atmosphere. Facing several-million-degree Fahrenheit temperatures, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will directly sample solar particles and magnetic fields to resolve some of the most important questions in solar science.