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NASA will announce the first results from the Parker Solar Probe mission, the agency's mission to \"touch\" the Sun, during a media teleconference at 1:30 pm EST on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019.\r
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Parker has traveled closer to our star than any human-made object before it. The teleconference will discuss the first papers from the principal investigators of the mission’s four instruments. The papers will be published online Wednesday in Nature at 1 pm EST.\r
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The teleconference audio will stream live at:\r
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https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive\r
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Participants in the call are: \r
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•\tNicola Fox, director of the Heliophysics Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington\r
•\tStuart Bale, principal investigator of the FIELDS instrument at the University of California, Berkeley\r
•\tJustin Kasper, principal investigator of the SWEAP instrument at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor\r
•\tRuss Howard, principal investigator of the WISPR instrument at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington\r
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Credit: NASA/Princeton\r

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Credit: NASA/Princeton/APL\r

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Credit: NASA/Princeton\r

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