Published 2 years ago

We Booped the Sun

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The Parker spacecraft left Earth in 2018, and is traveling on a long loop around our star, making periodic visits. The spacecraft is built to withstand the extremes of flying so close to our wonderful, scorching ball of nuclear fusion. When Parker flew into the superhot corona last year, it discovered the region where solar material churns before some of it escapes.

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We Booped the Sun

Kelly Korreck is still thinking about the time her spacecraft flew into the sun, how one moment, the probe was rushing through a stormy current of fast-moving particles, and the next, it was plunging somewhere quieter, where the plasma rolled like ocean waves. No machine had ever crossed that mysterious boundary before. But Korreck and her team had dispatched a mission for that exact purpose, and their plan worked. For the first time in history,…

2 years ago·Washington, United States

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