Skimming The Sun, Probe Sheds Light On Space Weather Threats

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Nasa's Parker Probe survives extreme temperatures near the Sun captures CMEs in high resolution, and deepens understanding of solar wind and magnetic field structures.

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00:00on christmas eve of last year is really a historical milestone so we have been waiting

00:13for this moment for since the late 50s when people start thinking about a mission like

00:19so it took us over 60 years to get to this point and there are many reasons for this why we wanted

00:27it to be at this point if you look at if you look at space weather the most interesting events that

00:35will drive major storms here on the earth atmosphere are multiple events that are events

00:41that are following each others so having this series of events like we witnessed in may of last

00:46year when we have a series of flares and cmes that caused the g5 storm on earth so having whispered

00:54observing um so multiple cmes in series and how they interact with each others is eye-opening

01:03for us to help us understand how these structures drive space weather further out in the heliosphere

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