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    New Results from Mission to Touch the Sun Live Shots

    Dec. 4th, 2019
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Read about the latest results HEREClick here for quick link to AUDIO interview with Eric ChristianClick here for quick link to canned interview with Aleida Higginson. Click here for quick link to canned interview with Nicholeen Viall. Click here for quick link to canned interview with Eric ChristianClick here for quick link to B-ROLL associated with this live shot. Click here for Education Outreach questions and answers with Eric ChristianClick here for quick link to Education Outreach questions and answers with Aleida Higginson. ||

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    Parker Solar Probe: Solar60 Series

    Jan. 30th, 2018
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Parker Solar Probe Enters Thermal Vacuum ChamberNASA's Parker Solar Probe Deputy Lead Mechanical Engineer Felipe Ruiz and Lead Thermal Engineer Jack Ercol - both from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab - take us through the process of preparing the spacecraft for space environment testing. The Thermal Protection System (TPS) simulator placed on the spacecraft is to provide accurate simulation conditions during testing. Learn more here. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Lee HobsonWatch this video on the Johns Hopkins APL YouTube channel. ||

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    Parker Solar Probe: Testing and Integration

    Sept. 22nd, 2017
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Main flight harness installation.Credit: NASA/JHUAPL || Top deck cooling system installation.Credit: NASA/JHUAPL || As the team readies the spacecraft for launch, blanketing and harness work continues.Credit: NASA/JHUAPL || Parker Solar Probe continues to be prepared for launch with actuator testing and blanketing.Credit: NASA/JHUAPL || Busy week with fit checks as well as a light bar test as the spacecraft prepares for launch in 2018.Credit: NASA/JHUAPL || A time-lapse capturing Parker Solar Probe being transported from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for further testing in November 2017.Watch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel. ||

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    What is Parker Solar Probe?

    Sept. 22nd, 2017
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Parker Solar Probe will swoop to within four million miles of the Sun's surface, facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it. Launching in 2018, Parker Solar Probe will provide new data on solar activity and make critical contributions to our ability to forecast major space-weather events that impact life on Earth.Parker Solar Probe is an extraordinary and historic mission exploring arguably the last and most important region of the solar system to be visited by a spacecraft to finally answer top-priority science goals for over five decades.But we don't do this just for the basic science.One recent study by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that without advance warning a huge solar event could cause two trillion dollars in damage in the U.S. alone, and the eastern seaboard of the U.S. could be without power for a year.In order to unlock the mysteries of the corona, but also to protect a society that is increasingly dependent on technology from the threats of space weather, we will send Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun. ||

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    ID: 14095 Produced Video

    NASA’s New Views of Venus’ Surface From Space

    Feb. 9th, 2022
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two recent flybys of the planet, Parker used its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, to image the entire nightside in wavelengths of the visible spectrum – the type of light that the human eye can see – and extending into the near-infrared.The images, combined into a video, reveal a faint glow from the surface that shows distinctive features like continental regions, plains, and plateaus. A luminescent halo of oxygen in the atmosphere can also be seen surrounding the planet.Link to NASA.gov feature.Link to associated research paper. ||

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    Parker Solar Probe: Environmental Testing

    Dec. 6th, 2017
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    NASA’s Parker Solar Probe passed laser illumination testing the week of Nov. 27, 2017. During this test, each segment of the spacecraft’s solar panels was illuminated with lasers to check that they were still electrically connected after the vigorous vibration and acoustic testing completed earlier this fall. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is in the midst of intense environmental testing at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in preparation for its journey to the Sun. These tests have simulated the noise and shaking the spacecraft will experience during its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, scheduled for July 31, 2018.Parker Solar Probe’s integration and testing team must check over the spacecraft and systems to make sure everything is still in optimal working condition after experiencing these rigorous conditions – including a check of the solar arrays, which will provide electrical power to the spacecraft.Parker Solar Probe will explore the Sun's outer atmosphere and make critical observations that will answer decades-old questions about the physics of stars. The resulting data will also help improve how we forecast major eruptions on the Sun and subsequent space weather events that can impact life on Earth, as well as satellites and astronauts in space. The mission is named for Eugene N. Parker, whose profound insights into solar physics and processes have helped shape the field of heliophysics.Link to Parker Solar Probe blog post. ||

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