Explained: What is NASA’s Parker Solar Probe | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: What is NASA’s Parker Solar Probe | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |Published: August 19, 2019 8:05:34 am

Explained: What is NASA’s Parker Solar Probe

The mission’s central aim is to trace how energy and heat move through the Sun’s corona and to study the source of the solar wind’s acceleration.

Artist’s impression of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the sun. (NASA)

On August 12, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed a year in service. It is part of NASA’s “Living With a Star” programme that explores different aspects of the Sun-Earth system. The probe seeks to gather information about the Sun’s atmosphere and NASA says that it “will revolutionise our understanding of the Sun”. It is also the closest a human-made object has ever gone to the Sun.