The First Results Of Parker Solar Probe’s Visits To The Sun (Video)

Video direct url: https://youtu.be/DTVqVESM0js

This video was published on Dec 6, 2019.

Video Intro (by Scott Manley):

Parker Solar Probe has made 3 fly-bys of the Sun within 25 million km, and is due to get even closer in the next 2 months. The first major results from the probe have started being published with 4 major papers in this week’s issue of Nature. So here’s a summary of things we’ve found, new features in the solar wind, new smaller flare events, observation of the transition from rotating to non-rotating wind. And a first observation of the dust free zone near the sun.

Nature summary of the results.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03684-0

Highly structured slow solar wind emerging from an equatorial coronal hole
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1818-7

Near-Sun observations of an F-corona decrease and K-corona fine structure
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1807-x

Alfvénic velocity spikes and rotational flows in the near-Sun solar wind
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1813-z

Probing the energetic particle environment near the Sun
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1811-1

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