Introduction and importance..
People around the world look up and see our sun every day, but through a telescope, it looks very different from down on the ground.
An environment of charged particles and magnetic fields, unlike anything we experience on earth.
We knew that we reached the moon many times, but do you hear about telescopes to the sun?
On April 28, 2021, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe became the first-ever spacecraft to ‘touch’ the sun by plummeting into the depths of the solar atmosphere. NASA confirmed later, on December 14, 2021, that the probe had approached the sun and sampled particles, and measured magnetic fields in the process. The whole world welcomed the news with admiration and astonishment.
It is within 3.9 million miles or 6.2 million kilometers of the sun's surface, that's so closer than the previous record-holder(the Helios B-space craft, which was seven times farther away.
An important objective of the parker solar probe is to learn more about solar wind.
-The parker solar probe is able to tell us such things as what part of the sun is providing the energy source for the wind particles and how they can accelerate to such incredibly high speeds.
-The parker solar probe orbit the sun at 430,000mile/hour or 716,000k/h that's fast enough to get from new york city to Tokyo in under a minute.
-It absorbs temperatures as high as 2500f or 1400c and soon it will begin to transmit the data to help us better comprehend one of the least understood phenomena in our solar system.
-Make maps of all the different particles and what r type of particle.
-Measure the bulk of the solar wind and the solar atmosphere.
-Collet individual particles( electrons, fully ionized hydrogen helium that we call protons, alphas, and other minor ions and make maps of the number of a particle as a function of their speed and energy.
These maps are taken on the ground and interpreted to figure out the temperature, density, and pressure of the solar wind, and the solar atmosphere.
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