NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission.
                     NASA'S PARKER SOLAR 
PROBE MISSION
PARKER SOLAR PROBE MISSION
• The Parker Solar Sample of NASA began in August 
2018, and soon was the nearest starship to the Sun. 
• Parker Solar Probe has ended three of 24 proposed 
passes through never studied areas of Sun's 
atmosphere, the corona, by using sophisticated 
science instruments to measure the environment 
surrounding the spacecraft. 
Source: NASA
PARTICLES FROM THE SUN
• These results reveal new knowledge on the 
behaviour of materials and particle speeds from 
the Sun that leads scientist to address simple 
questions on our physics of the star. 
Source: eandt.theiet.org
DIFFERENT PERCEPTION
• The first data from Parker reveals our star, the 
Sun, in new and surprising ways, said Thomas 
Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at 
NASA Headquarters in Washington.  
Source: www.sciencedaily.com
UNDERSTANDING OF ACTIVE 
STARS
• Observing the Sun up close rather than from a 
much greater distance is giving us an 
unprecedented view into important solar 
phenomena and how they affect us on Earth, and 
gives us new insights relevant to the 
understanding of active stars across galaxies. 
Source: www.bigthink.com
MAGNETICALLY ACTIVE
• Although the Sun is anything but calm for us here 
on earth. Our star is magnetically active, 
releasing intense light blasts, particle dumps 
travelling near light speed and billiards of tonnes 
of magnetised material clouds. 
Source: www.bbc.com
SOLAR SYSTEM AND THE REST 
OF THE UNIVERSE
• All the behaviour impacts our world by introducing 
deleterious contaminants into the vacuum where our 
spacecraft and astronauts travels, destroying 
communications and navigational signals. 
• This has taken place for the entire lifetime of the Sun of 
five billion years, which is going to influence the destinies 
of our solar system and the rest of the universe in the 
future.
Source: www.sciencedaily.com
THE DYNAMIC SOLAR WIND
• The solar wind is a relatively uniform, often 
tumbling plasma wave near the Earth. 
• At that point, however, it has travelled over 
ninety million kilometres and Sun's exact 
heating and accelerating processes are 
eliminated. 
Source: www.newsheads.com
PLASMA
• As in the solar wind itself, plasma is the best way to build 
a sea of free-floating particles with a single electric 
charge. Negative charged electrons are often 
distinguished from positively charged ions. 
• This floating free particles mean that plasma holds 
electric and magnetic fields and plasma modifications are 
also distinguished by those fields. 
Source: www.spaceconnect.com
ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC 
FIELDS
• The FIELDS instruments analysed the state of the 
solar wind through observations and careful study, 
along with measuring waves in the surrounding 
plasma, of how electric and magnetic fields around 
the vessel have moved.
Source: www.sciencedaily.com
THE ROTATING SOLAR WIND
• We see almost radially the solar wind, near the 
surface, which means it streams straight from the 
Sun in any way. 
• But the Sun flips as it releases the solar wind, and 
the solar wind spins with it until it breaks loose. 
Source: www.sciencedaily.com