NASA  enters the solar environment

For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the solar. NASA’s parker sun probe has now flown through the solar’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one primary step for parker sun probe and one large leap for sun science. Just as touchdown on the moon allowed scientists to recognize the way it was fashioned, touching the very stuff the solar is made of will help scientists discover important data about our closest superstar and its influence on the solar machine. Because it circles closer to the solar floor, parker is making new discoveries that different spacecraft have been too some distance away to see, inclusive of from in the sun wind – the glide of particles from the solar which can influence us at earth. 

In 2019, parker located that magnetic zig-zag systems inside the sun wind, called switchbacks, are ample close to the sun. But how and wherein they shape remained a mystery. Halving the gap to the sun given that then, parker solar probe has now handed near enough to pick out one region wherein they originate: the sun surface.