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As it skimmed through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona, in the days around the perihelion, it collected data with an array of scientific instruments, including the Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR.Learn more - https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-snaps-closest-ever-images-to-sun/Find the latest WISPR imagery here. || ", "hits": 516 }, { "id": 5534, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5534/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-06-18T11:23:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe - Extended Mission", "description": "After it's ultimate perihelion in December 2024, the Parker Solar Probe will continue it's orbits around the Sun. This visualization presents a projection of it's current orbit through 2029.", "hits": 915 }, { "id": 14741, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14741/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-12-27T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe: Humanity’s Closest Encounter with the Sun", "description": "Controllers have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever moved. A beacon tone received in the late evening hours of Dec. 26 confirmed the spacecraft had made it through the encounter safely and is operating normally.This pass, the first of more to come at this distance, allows the spacecraft to conduct unrivaled scientific measurements with the potential to change our understanding of the Sun. || ", "hits": 578 }, { "id": 5443, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5443/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-12-17T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Heliophysics Sentinels 2024", "description": "There have been some changes since the 2022 Heliophysics Fleet. AIM and ICON have been decommissioned while two other instruments have been added. AWE is an instrument mounted on the ISS, and RAD is a particle detector on the Curiosity Mars rover. As of Winter 2024, here's a tour of the NASA Heliophysics fleet from the near-Earth satellites out to the Voyagers beyond the heliopause. || ", "hits": 67 }, { "id": 5428, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5428/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Towards its Ultimate Perihelion", "description": "Parker Solar Probe is making its final planned orbits around the Sun.On Wednesday, November 6, 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed it's final Venus gravity assist maneuver, passing within 233 miles (376 kilometers) of Venus' surface. The flyby adjusted Parker's trajectory into its final orbital configuration, bringing the spacecraft to within an unprecedented 3.86 million miles from the solar surface on December 24, 2024. It will be the closest any human-made object has been to the Sun. || ", "hits": 553 }, { "id": 14688, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14688/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-09-26T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "5 Ways NASA Uses Solar Power", "description": "From studying life on Earth to powering spacecraft across the Solar System, NASA uses solar power to explore near and far. In September 2024, the Heliophysics Big Year theme is Environment and Sustainability. The Heliophysics Big Year is a global celebration of the Sun’s influence on Earth and the entire solar system. From October 14, 2023, to December 24, 2024, the Heliophysics Big Year celebrates under a theme, sharing opportunities to participate in many solar science events and activities. During the Heliophysics Big Year, participation isn’t limited to science – NASA invites everyone to celebrate the Sun with as many Sun-related activities as they can.To learn more about NASA’s history with solar power, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/sun/how-nasa-uses-and-improves-solar-power/ || ", "hits": 102 }, { "id": 4898, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4898/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-11-23T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Heliophysics Sentinels 2022", "description": "There has been one significant change since the 2020 Heliophysics Fleet. SET has been decommissioned. As of Fall 2022, here's a tour of the NASA Heliophysics fleet from the near-Earth satellites out to the Voyagers beyond the heliopause.Excepting the Voyager missions, the satellite orbits are color coded for their observing program:Magenta: TIM (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere) observationsYellow: solar observations and imageryCyan: Geospace and magnetosphereViolet: Heliospheric observations || ", "hits": 38 }, { "id": 14120, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14120/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-03-16T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Tribute to Eugene Parker, Namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe", "description": "Dr. Eugene N. Parker, visionary of heliophysics and namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, passed away on March 15, 2022. He was 94. As a young professor at the University of Chicago in the mid-1950s, Parker developed a mathematical theory that predicted the solar wind, the constant outflow of solar material from the Sun. Throughout his career, Parker revolutionized the field time and again, advancing ideas that addressed the fundamental questions about the workings of our Sun and stars throughout the universe.More information:• NASA Press Release• University of Chicago Press Release || ", "hits": 43 }, { "id": 4970, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4970/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-02-25T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Many Eyes on the Parker Solar Probe Perihelion (February 2022)", "description": "This visualization opens with a top-down view, then transtions to an oblique view of the inner solar system with the various solar-observing missions conducting coordinated observations of the plasma environment. This version displays the imaging instrument camera frustums and solar magnetic field alignments - the 'glyph' version. A version with just the orbits, no 'glyphs' is available in the [Download Options] menu. || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.HAE.AU.glyphs_CRTT.HD1080.01300_print.jpg (1024x576) [123.3 KB] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.HAE.AU.glyphs_CRTT.HD1080.01300_searchweb.png (320x180) [78.9 KB] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.HAE.AU.glyphs_CRTT.HD1080.01300_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || Encounter2022FebTop2Side (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || Encounter2022FebTop2Side.glyphs (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.HD1080_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [47.0 MB] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.glyphs.HD1080_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [60.7 MB] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.HD1080_p30.webm (1920x1080) [9.7 MB] || Encounter2022FebTop2Side (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || Encounter2022FebTop2Side.glyphs (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.UHD2160_p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [143.6 MB] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.glyphs.UHD2160_p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [176.4 MB] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.HD1080_p30.mp4.hwshow [220 bytes] || ", "hits": 85 }, { "id": 14095, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14095/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-02-09T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA’s New Views of Venus’ Surface From Space", "description": "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. || ", "hits": 877 }, { "id": 14055, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14055/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-12-20T22:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe's WISPR Images Inside The Sun's Atmosphere", "description": "For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. As Parker Solar Probe flew through the corona, its WISPR instrument captured images.The Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) is the only imaging instrument aboard the spacecraft. WISPR looks at the large-scale structure of the corona and solar wind before the spacecraft flies through it. About the size of a shoebox, WISPR takes images from afar of structures like coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, jets and other ejecta from the Sun. These structures travel out from the Sun and eventually overtake the spacecraft, where the spacecraft’s other instruments take in-situ measurements. WISPR helps link what’s happening in the large-scale coronal structure to the detailed physical measurements being captured directly in the near-Sun environment.To image the solar atmosphere, WISPR uses the heat shield to block most of the Sun’s light, which would otherwise obscure the much fainter corona. Specially designed baffles and occulters reflect and absorb the residual stray light that has been reflected or diffracted off the edge of the heat shield or other parts of the spacecraft.WISPR uses two cameras with radiation-hardened Active Pixel Sensor CMOS detectors. These detectors are used in place of traditional CCDs because they are lighter and use less power. They are also less susceptible to effects of radiation damage from cosmic rays and other high-energy particles, which are a big concern close to the Sun. The camera’s lenses are made of a radiation hard BK7, a common type of glass used for space telescopes, which is also sufficiently hardened against the impacts of dust.WISPR was designed and developed by the Solar and Heliophysics Physics Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. (principal investigator Russell Howard), which will also develop the observing program. || ", "hits": 606 }, { "id": 14046, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14046/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-12-17T19:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Solar Tour", "description": "Starting Dec. 3, we took a journey from Earth to the Sun. We made pit stops along the way to learn how the Sun influences everything in the solar system.In 2018, NASA launched Parker Solar Probe to study the Sun up close. But the mission has also taught us much more about our solar system.On the final day of the #SolarTour, we had big news to share: Parker Solar Probe officially “touched” the Sun, becoming the first spacecraft in history to fly through the solar atmosphere.Below are postcards we released at each pit stop of the Solar Tour campaign. || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 4957, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4957/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-12-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe: The Origins of Switchbacks", "description": "Most of the magnetic field measured at Parker during this time is directed sunward (blue field lines and vectors). A switchback occurs when the field changes direction almost 180 degrees for a short period of time. FIELDS instrument magnetic vector data are projected from the spacecraft position as arrows. The arrows are colored deep blue for sunward vectors, deep red for anti-sunward, and in between for directions off from this line. 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The Mach number drops below unity (one) when a field line transitions between two different coronal hole regions (the blue and red regions marked on the Sun). || Parker_SolarCloseup.combo.HD1080.00480_print.jpg (1024x576) [121.9 KB] || Parker_SolarCloseup.combo.HD1080.00480_searchweb.png (320x180) [74.1 KB] || Parker_SolarCloseup.combo.HD1080.00480_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || Parker_SolarCloseup.combo.HD1080 (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || Parker_SolarCloseup.combo.HD1080_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [45.8 MB] || Parker_SolarCloseup.combo.HD1080_p30.webm (1920x1080) [5.6 MB] || Parker_SolarCloseup.combo.UHD2160 (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || Parker_SolarCloseup.combo.UHD2160_p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [124.5 MB] || Parker_SolarCloseup.combo.HD1080_p30.mp4.hwshow [202 bytes] || ", "hits": 310 }, { "id": 14045, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14045/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-12-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Parker Solar Probe Touches The Sun For The First Time", "description": "For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science. Just as landing on the Moon allowed scientists to understand how it was formed, touching the very stuff the Sun is made of will help scientists uncover critical information about our closest star and its influence on the solar system. More information here. || ", "hits": 246 }, { "id": 20354, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20354/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2021-12-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Animation: Origins of Switchbacks", "description": "On recent solar encounters, Parker Solar Probe collected data pinpointing the origin of zig-zag-shaped structures in the solar wind, called switchbacks. The data showed one spot switchbacks originate is at the visible surface of the Sun – the photosphere. By the time it reaches Earth, 93 million miles away, the solar wind is an unrelenting headwind of particles and magnetic fields. But as it escapes the Sun, the solar wind is structured and patchy. In the mid-1990s, the NASA-European Space Agency mission Ulysses flew over the Sun’s poles and discovered a handful of bizarre S-shaped kinks in the solar wind’s magnetic field lines, which detoured charged particles on a zig-zag path as they escaped the Sun. For decades, scientists thought these occasional switchbacks were oddities confined to the Sun’s polar regions. In 2019, at 34 solar radii from the Sun, Parker Solar Probe discovered that switchbacks were not rare, but common in the solar wind. This renewed interest in the features raised new questions: Where are they coming from and how do they form and evolve? Were they forged at the surface of the Sun, or shaped by some process kinking magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere? The new findings, in press at the Astrophysical Journal, finally confirm one origin point near the solar surface. More information here. || ", "hits": 75 }, { "id": 4887, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4887/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-03-01T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Heliophysics Sentinels 2020 (Forecast Version)", "description": "In addition to the NASA missions used in research for space weather (see 2020 Heliophysics Fleet) there are additional missions operated by NOAA used for space weather forecasting. As of spring 2020, here's a tour of the NASA and NOAA Heliophysics fleets from the near-Earth satellites out to the inner solar system.The satellite orbits are color coded for their observing program:Magenta: TIM (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere) observationsYellow: solar observations and imageryCyan: Geospace and magnetosphereViolet: Heliospheric observations || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 4805, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4805/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-12-07T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Coordinated Heliosphere - How Solar Missions Work Together", "description": "Using Solar Orbiter, Parker Solar Probe, and other sun-observing missions, in coordinated observations, we can learn far more about the solar atmosphere which surrounds and impacts Earth and other missions in space, crewed and uncrewed. || ", "hits": 38 }, { "id": 4822, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4822/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-09-15T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Heliophysics Sentinels 2020", "description": "There have been few changes since the 2018 Heliophysics Fleet. Van Allen Probes and SORCE have been decommissioned, while Solar Orbiter, ICON and SET have been added. As of spring 2020, here's a tour of the NASA Heliophysics fleet from the near-Earth satellites out to the Voyagers beyond the heliopause.Excepting the Voyager missions, the satellite orbits are color coded for their observing program:Magenta: TIM (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere) observationsYellow: solar observations and imageryCyan: Geospace and magnetosphereViolet: Heliospheric observations || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 13661, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13661/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-07-10T09:50:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Missions Spot Comet NEOWISE", "description": "These images from ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory show comet NEOWISE as it approached the Sun in late June 2020. The instrument that produced this data is a coronagraph, which uses a solid disk to block out the Sun’s bright face, revealing the comparatively outer atmosphere, the corona, along with objects like comet NEOWISE. Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO || wide.00250_print.jpg (1024x576) [164.4 KB] || wide.mp4 (3840x2160) [72.2 MB] || wide.webm (3840x2160) [6.2 MB] || ", "hits": 76 }, { "id": 13628, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13628/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-06-12T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Teams Up with Observatories Around the Solar System for Fourth Solar Encounter", "description": "At the heart of understanding our space environment is the knowledge that conditions throughout space — from the Sun to the atmospheres of planets to the radiation environment in deep space — are connected.Studying this connection – a field of science called heliophysics — is a complex task: Researchers track sudden eruptions of material, radiation, and particles against the background of the ubiquitous outflow of solar material.A confluence of events in early 2020 created a nearly ideal space-based laboratory, combining the alignment of some of humanity’s best observatories — including Parker Solar Probe, during its fourth solar flyby — with a quiet period in the Sun’s activity, when it’s easiest to study those background conditions. These conditions provided a unique opportunity for scientists to study how the Sun influences conditions at points throughout space, with multiple angles of observation and at different distances from the Sun. || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 13494, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13494/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-11T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "AGU 2019 - New Science from NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission", "description": "Little more than a year into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned gigabytes of data on the Sun and its atmosphere. The very first science from the Parker mission is just beginning to be shared, and five researchers presented new findings from the mission at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Dec. 11, 2019. Their research hints at the processes behind both the Sun's continual outflow of material — the solar wind — and more infrequent solar storms that can disrupt technology and endanger astronauts, along with new insight into space dust that creates the Geminids meteor shower.Speakers:Nicholeen Viall - Research Astrophysicist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterTim Horbury - Professor of Physics, Imperial College LondonKelly Korreck - Astrophysicist, Head of Science Operations for SWEAP Suite, Harvard and Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsNathan Schwadron - Presidential Chair, Norman S. and Anna Marie Waite Professor, University of New HampshireKarl Battams - Computational Scientist, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory || ", "hits": 118 }, { "id": 13282, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13282/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-04T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "5 New Discoveries from NASA's Parker Solar Probe", "description": "Music Credit: Smooth as Glass by The Freeharmonic OrchestraWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || parkerscience.thumb.jpg (1920x1080) [731.2 KB] || parkerscience.thumb_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || parkerscience.thumb_searchweb.png (320x180) [87.7 KB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScience_Twitter1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [53.4 MB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScience.YouTube1080.webm (1920x1080) [26.9 MB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScience.mp4 (1920x1080) [246.1 MB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScience_Mobile1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [194.5 MB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScience.YouTube1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [387.1 MB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScience_Twitter1080.en_US.srt [4.5 KB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScience_Twitter1080.en_US.vtt [4.5 KB] || 13282_ParkerFirstScienceMASTER.APR1080.mov (1920x1080) [3.2 GB] || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 13457, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13457/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-04T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "New Results from Mission to Touch the Sun Live Shots", "description": "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. || Screen_Shot_2019-11-19_at_2.18.38_PM.png (2732x436) [736.7 KB] || Screen_Shot_2019-11-19_at_2.18.38_PM_print.jpg (1024x163) [27.1 KB] || Screen_Shot_2019-11-19_at_2.18.38_PM_searchweb.png (320x180) [1.4 KB] || Screen_Shot_2019-11-19_at_2.18.38_PM_thm.png (80x40) [973 bytes] || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 13484, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13484/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-04T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe First Findings - Media Telecon", "description": "NASA to Present First Parker Solar Probe Findings in Media TeleconferenceNASA 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.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.The teleconference audio will stream live at:https://www.nasa.gov/nasaliveParticipants in the call are: •Nicola Fox, director of the Heliophysics Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington•Stuart Bale, principal investigator of the FIELDS instrument at the University of California, Berkeley•Justin Kasper, principal investigator of the SWEAP instrument at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor•Russ Howard, principal investigator of the WISPR instrument at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington•David McComas, principal investigator of the ISʘIS instrument at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. || ", "hits": 76 }, { "id": 20299, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20299/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2019-12-04T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Science Result animations", "description": "On Dec. 4, 2019, four new papers in the journal Nature describe what scientists working with data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe have learned from this unprecedented exploration of our star — and what they look forward to learning next. These findings reveal new information about the behavior of the material and particles that speed away from the Sun, bringing scientists closer to answering fundamental questions about the physics of our star. These animations represent five of those findings. || ", "hits": 272 }, { "id": 13491, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13491/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Science Live: New Discoveries from Our Mission to Touch the Sun (Episode 12)", "description": "NASA Science Live: New Discoveries from Our Mission to Touch the Sun (Episode 12) || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [85.1 KB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [82.0 KB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12.00001_thm.png (80x40) [5.7 KB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12_lowres.mp4 (1280x720) [1.1 GB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12_youtube_720.mp4 (1280x720) [6.4 GB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12.mov (1280x720) [42.2 GB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12_youtube_720.webm (1280x720) [453.7 MB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12.en_US.srt [113.5 KB] || 13491_NSL_Parker_Ep12.en_US.vtt [106.5 KB] || ", "hits": 78 }, { "id": 4360, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4360/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2018-12-10T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Heliophysics Sentinels 2018", "description": "This movie presents the trajectories of the heliophysics fleet from close to Earth to out beyond the heliopause. || Sentinels2018.Sentinels2Voyager.GSE.AU.clockSlate_EarthTarget.UHD3840.00000_print.jpg (1024x576) [74.5 KB] || Sentinels2018.Sentinels2Voyager.GSE.AU.clockSlate_EarthTarget.UHD3840.00000_searchweb.png (180x320) [65.6 KB] || Sentinels2018.Sentinels2Voyager.GSE.AU.clockSlate_EarthTarget.UHD3840.00000_thm.png (80x40) [5.1 KB] || Sentinels2018.Sentinels2Voyager_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [40.3 MB] || Sentinels2018.Sentinels2Voyager_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [6.3 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || Sentinels2018.Sentinels2Voyager_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [125.7 MB] || Sentinels2018.Sentinels2Voyager_1080p30.mp4.hwshow || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 13105, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13105/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-11-02T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "First Perihelion: Into the Unknown with Parker Solar Probe", "description": "Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the JHU/APL YouTube channel. || 1803932PSPRISKmixedfinalscreener.03961_print.jpg (1024x576) [97.7 KB] || 1803932PSPRISKmixedfinalscreener.03961_searchweb.png (320x180) [78.1 KB] || 1803932PSPRISKmixedfinalscreener.03961_thm.png (80x40) [5.7 KB] || 1803932PSPRISKmixedfinalscreener.mp4 (1280x720) [130.4 MB] || 1803932PSPRISKmixedfinalscreener.webm (1280x720) [23.0 MB] || FirstPerihelioncaptions.en_US.srt [3.5 KB] || FirstPerihelioncaptions.en_US.vtt [3.6 KB] || ", "hits": 237 }, { "id": 13072, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13072/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-09-19T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe First Light Data", "description": "Just over a month into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned first-light data from each of its four instrument suites. These early observations – while not yet examples of the key science observations Parker Solar Probe will take closer to the Sun – show that each of the instruments is working well. The instruments work in tandem to measure the Sun's electric and magnetic fields, particles from the Sun and the solar wind, and capture images of the environment around the spacecraft. The mission’s first close approach to the Sun will be in November 2018, but even now, the instruments are able to gather measurements of what’s happening in the solar wind closer to Earth. || ", "hits": 134 }, { "id": 13046, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13046/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-22T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sunset Show for Parker Solar Probe", "description": "Early in the morning of Aug. 12, NASA launched Parker Solar Probe, humanity’s first mission to the Sun. This spacecraft will fly closer to the Sun than any before it, in a daring journey facing brutal heat and radiation. Parker Solar Probe sets its sights on the Sun’s scorching outer atmosphere, called the corona, in order to solve our star’s greatest mysteries. It will revolutionize our understanding not only of the Sun, but also the space around us, and even the lives of stars beyond our solar system — crucial information as we explore more of space.On Aug. 10, scientists and mission experts gathered at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for a live sunset show — one of the last times the Sun set on Parker Solar Probe before it launched — to talk about what this landmark mission will teach us of the Sun. Guests included: - Jim Spann, Chief Solar Scientist, NASA HQ- Yari Collado-Vega, Space Weather Scientist, NASA Goddard- C. Alex Young, Solar Scientist, NASA Goddard- Nicola Fox, Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 13040, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13040/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-12T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Launch of Parker Solar Probe", "description": "Live Launch CoverageNASA’s Parker Solar Probe lifts off atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 12. The agency’s Parker Solar Probe is a historic mission that will revolutionize our understanding of the Sun. Protected by a first-of-its-kind heat shield and other innovative technologies, this mission will provide unprecedented information about our Sun, where changing conditions can spread out into the solar system to affect Earth and other worlds. The spacecraft will fly directly into the Sun's atmosphere where, from a distance of – at the closest approach -- approximately 4 million miles from its surface, the spacecraft will trace how energy and heat move through the Sun’s atmosphere and explore what accelerates the solar wind and solar energetic particles. || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825~orig.00016_print.jpg (1024x576) [74.7 KB] || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825~orig.00016_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.8 KB] || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825~orig.00016_web.png (320x180) [65.8 KB] || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825~orig.00016_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825~orig.mp4 (1280x720) [6.4 GB] || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825~orig.webm (1280x720) [749.7 MB] || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825.en_US.srt [117.3 KB] || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825.en_US.vtt [110.7 KB] || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 13039, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13039/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-12T05:00:00-04:00", "title": "Eugene Parker Reacts To Parker Solar Probe Launch", "description": "B-roll - Short versionDr. Eugene Parker watches the launch of the spacecraft that bears his name — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe — early in the morning of Aug. 12, 2018. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first mission to the Sun and will travel closer to our star than any spacecraft before. || Parker1024.jpg (1024x568) [667.9 KB] || Parker_SearchWeb.jpg (320x180) [77.7 KB] || Parker_Thumbnail.jpg (80x40) [7.4 KB] || 18-08-12_Eugene_Parker_Views_PSP_Launch_UHD_ShortVersion_18-00001.mp4 (3840x2160) [567.9 MB] || 18-08-12_Eugene_Parker_Views_PSP_Launch_UHD_ShortVersion_18-00001.webm (3840x2160) [17.5 MB] || ", "hits": 49 }, { "id": 13038, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13038/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-11T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Eugene Parker Soundbites", "description": "Soundbites of Eugene Parker from a Parker Solar Probe prelaunch briefing on August 9, 2018 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. || Dr._Eugene_Parker_Sound_Bites_at_KSC.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [42.0 KB] || Dr._Eugene_Parker_Sound_Bites_at_KSC.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [40.2 KB] || Dr._Eugene_Parker_Sound_Bites_at_KSC.00001_web.png (320x180) [40.2 KB] || Dr._Eugene_Parker_Sound_Bites_at_KSC.00001_thm.png (80x40) [4.1 KB] || Dr._Eugene_Parker_Sound_Bites_at_KSC.mov (1280x720) [5.2 GB] || Dr._Eugene_Parker_Sound_Bites_at_KSC.webm (1280x720) [40.2 MB] || ", "hits": 9 }, { "id": 13036, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13036/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-09T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Soundbites from Parker Solar Probe Experts", "description": "Nicola Fox - Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory[0:00]Parker Solar Probe really is a historic mission, it was first dreamed of in 1958 and it has remained the highest priority mission throughout that period. The reason it hasn’t flown is just because it has taken a while for technology to catch up with the dreams that we had for this amazing mission.[0:23]The coolest thing about my job is just the sheer feeling that this is a 60-year journey that people have gone on to make Parker Solar Probe a reality and to be there at the finish line as we’re on the pad and ready to launch—that is definitely the coolest thing about my job.Betsy Congdon - Lead Thermal Protection Engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory[0:51]After working on this for 10 years, it is really a pleasure to see it actually coming to fruition. To be one small part of this huge engineering team that is making science dreams come true is just amazing. I can’t wait to re-write textbooks and change the way we look at the Sun forever. I’m a whole ball of excited, and I honestly don’t know exactly how I’m going to feel at launch but I’m really excited to pass this off to the mission operations team and see all the science data that comes down and just get to enjoy all that Solar Probe brings us.[1:32]There are many enabling technologies, the solar arrays are really important, the autonomy is very important, one of the ones that is obviously also critical is the heat shield, and developing the technology to actually protect the probe at the Sun.[1:49]A sandwich panel is a lot like a honeycomb panel you find in a traditional spacecraft or on airplanes. You have the outer face sheets, and then you have a core. In this case the two outer face sheets are carbon-carbon composite, which is a lot like the graphite epoxy you might find in your golf clubs, it’s just been super-heated, and then the inside is a carbon foam. So the Parker Solar Probe heat shield has a white coating that’s on the Sun-facing surface of this giant frisbee that’s protecting the rest of the spacecraft. And that white coating was specially designed here at the lab, in collaboration with REDD and the space department as well as the Whiting school at Johns Hopkins proper, to actually work at the Sun, specifically designed for Solar Probe. And the concept is basically you’d rather be in a white car on a hot day, than a black car on a hot day—it just knocks down the heat that much more. So it’s helping us stay cool at the Sun.[2:43]The titanium truss was also specially designed for solar probe. It’s a really neat piece. It’s a welded titanium truss that’s about 4 feet tall, but it only weighs about 50 pounds. And the key there is we’re trying to minimize the conduction between the heat shield and the spacecraft, so you want to have as little stuff there as possible.[3:05]But then also the first closest approach will be a very interesting time. We’ll obviously be working towards closest approach a long time and getting science back from the beginning, but the heat shield has to do its hardest work 7 years into the mission, which has always been an interesting construct of the mission.[3:27]When we’re at closest approach, the front surface of the heat shield will be at about 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit. The back surface of the heat shield will be about 600 degrees Fahrenheit. But the spacecraft bus is basically sitting at 85 degrees Fahrenheit. So the shield is actually really keeping everything very cool, most of the stuff is on the bus.[3:50]The mission that is in its current form is actually a solar powered mission, whereas some of the earlier concepts were nuclear powered. So they just had different mission designs, there were different constraints on the mission, and so once this current form iteration with a flat heat shield, or 8-foot frisbee as we like to say, because it’s basically a giant sandwich panel protecting the spacecraft as an umbrella, really developed as a part of this solar-powered mission that is its most recent rendition. And so, reaching out with expertise all around the lab, that whole team really brought this heat shield to fruition.Yanping Guo - Design and Navigation Manager, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory[4:34]Of all the space missions I’ve worked on, Parker Solar Probe is the most challenging and complex mission to design and to fly. The launch energy required to reach the Sun is 55 times that required to get to Mars, and two times to Pluto.Annette Dolbow - Integration and Test Lead Engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory[5:00]So the tensest moment for me after launch is when we’re sitting in the control room and we’re waiting for that green telemetry to show that the spacecraft is turned on and we can actually talk to it. || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [22.0 KB] || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [8.9 KB] || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.00001_web.png (320x180) [8.9 KB] || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.00001_thm.png (80x40) [1.3 KB] || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.mp4 (1920x1080) [385.8 MB] || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.webm [41.0 MB] || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 13034, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13034/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-09T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Pre-launch Video File", "description": "Parker Solar Probe pre-Launch video file || Screen_Shot_2018-08-08_at_4.00.30_PM_print.jpg (1024x573) [66.8 KB] || Screen_Shot_2018-08-08_at_4.00.30_PM.png (2548x1426) [2.0 MB] || Screen_Shot_2018-08-08_at_4.00.30_PM_searchweb.png (320x180) [55.1 KB] || Screen_Shot_2018-08-08_at_4.00.30_PM_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || GSFC_ParkerSolarProbe_VF.mov (1280x720) [6.0 GB] || GSFC_ParkerSolarProbe_VF.mp4 (1280x720) [464.7 MB] || GSFC_ParkerSolarProbe_VF.webm (1280x720) [46.0 MB] || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 13029, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13029/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Pre-Launch Briefing", "description": "Hosted by Karen Fox - Heliophysics Communications Lead, NASA Goddard/NASA HQSpeakers:Scott Messer - Program Manager, NASA Programs, United Launch AllianceOmar Baez - Launch Director, NASA, Kennedy Space CenterKathy Rice - Launch Weather Officer, 45th Weather Squadron, Cape Canaveral Air Force StationThomas Zurbuchen - Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASANicola Fox - Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LabAndy Dreisman - Project Manger The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 13035, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13035/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-08T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Instruments", "description": "SWEAPThe Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons investigation, or SWEAP, gathers observations using two complementary instruments: the Solar Probe Cup, or SPC, and the Solar Probe Analyzers, or SPAN. The instruments count the most abundant particles in the solar wind — electrons, protons and helium ions — and measure such properties as velocity, density, and temperature to improve our understanding of the solar wind and coronal plasma. SWEAP was built mainly at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. The institutions jointly operate the instrument. 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This video explains why.Music: Percs and Pizz from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || PSP_Orbit_Shot_1_still.jpg (1920x1080) [324.1 KB] || PSP_Orbit_Shot_1_still_print.jpg (1024x576) [131.5 KB] || PSP_Orbit_Shot_1_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [88.1 KB] || PSP_Orbit_Shot_1_still_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || 13017_ParkerSolarProbe_Orbit_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.2 GB] || 13017_ParkerSolarProbe_Orbit.mp4 (1920x1080) [177.5 MB] || 13017_ParkerSolarProbe_Orbit_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.webm (1920x1080) [18.4 MB] || 13017_ParkerSolarProbe_Orbit_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [3.4 KB] || 13017_ParkerSolarProbe_Orbit_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [3.3 KB] || ", "hits": 634 }, { "id": 13028, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13028/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Media Telecons", "description": "This is a resource page for the media teleconferences on August 8, 2018. || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 4671, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4671/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2018-08-07T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe - Close to the Sun", "description": "Image representing Parker Solar Probe's distance from the Sun. || Parker_Close_to_Sun_Infographic_print.jpg (1024x662) [60.0 KB] || Parker_Close_to_Sun_Infographic.jpg (5100x3300) [1001.2 KB] || Parker_Close_to_Sun_Infographic_borderless.jpg (4628x2572) [1.0 MB] || Parker_Close_to_Sun_Infographic_searchweb.png (320x180) [86.8 KB] || Parker_Close_to_Sun_Infographic_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || parker-solar-probe-close-to-the-sun.hwshow [306 bytes] || ", "hits": 155 }, { "id": 4672, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4672/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2018-08-07T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Corona Science Timeline", "description": "A timeline of science of the solar wind and corona. || Solar_Wind_and_Corona_Timeline_print.jpg (1024x1448) [521.5 KB] || Solar_Wind_and_Corona_Timeline.jpg (4193x5931) [3.4 MB] || Solar_Wind_and_Corona_Timeline_searchweb.png (320x180) [97.1 KB] || Solar_Wind_and_Corona_Timeline_thm.png (80x40) [7.6 KB] || ", "hits": 81 }, { "id": 4673, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4673/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2018-08-07T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe", "description": "Specifications on the Parker Solar Probe mission and its science questions. || Parker_Solar_Probe_Infographic_print.jpg (1024x950) [474.3 KB] || Parker_Solar_Probe_Infographic.jpg (3479x3230) [2.1 MB] || Parker_Solar_Probe_Infographic_searchweb.png (320x180) [115.9 KB] || Parker_Solar_Probe_Infographic_thm.png (80x40) [7.5 KB] || ", "hits": 108 }, { "id": 13019, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13019/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-01T18:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Mission to Touch the Sun Launches Next Week", "description": "Canned interview with C.Alex Young || Parker_Solar_Probe_LS_Alex_Young_Canned_Interview_8.2.2018.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [28.5 KB] || Alex_Canned_Interview.png (2640x1408) [419.5 KB] || Parker_Solar_Probe_LS_Alex_Young_Canned_Interview_8.2.2018.mp4 (1280x720) [240.6 MB] || Parker_Solar_Probe_LS_Alex_Young_Canned_Interview_8.2.2018.webm (1280x720) [24.9 MB] || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 13024, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13024/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-07-31T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Prepares to Head Toward Launch Pad", "description": "NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is lifted to the third stage rocket motor on July 11, 2018, at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida. In addition to using the largest operational launch vehicle, the Delta IV Heavy, Parker Solar Probe will use a third stage rocket to gain the speed needed to reach the Sun, which takes 55 times more energy than reaching Mars.Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman || aPSPLift3.jpg (1920x1280) [1.7 MB] || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 13001, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13001/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-07-30T11:50:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe", "description": "NASA's mission to touch the Sun begins its journey in 2018 || 01_Cover_forStory.png (1280x720) [920.1 KB] || 01_Cover_forStory_print.jpg (1024x576) [74.5 KB] || 01_Cover_forStory_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || 01_Cover_forStory_searchweb.png (320x180) [71.7 KB] || ", "hits": 136 }, { "id": 12911, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12911/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-07-20T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Trailer", "description": "Trailer without text introduction. Music credit: Luminous Skies [Underscore] by Andrew Prahlow from www.killertracks.comComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 1080trailer_updated_animation2_youtube_1080.02350_print.jpg (1024x576) [78.9 KB] || 1080trailer_updated_animation2_youtube_1080.02350_thm.png (80x40) [5.1 KB] || 1080trailer_updated_animation2_youtube_1080.02350_searchweb.png (320x180) [67.6 KB] || 1080trailer_updated_animation2_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [44.4 MB] || 1080trailer_updated_animation2_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [44.4 MB] || 1080trailer_updated_animation_TEXT_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [80.8 MB] || 1080trailer_updated_animation2_youtube_1080.webm (1920x1080) [8.9 MB] || 1080trailer_updated_animation2_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [80.6 MB] || 1080trailer_updated_animation2_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [136.9 MB] || 1080trailer_updated_animation2.mpeg (1280x720) [262.4 MB] || 1080trailer_updated_animation2_prores.mov (1280x720) [897.5 MB] || 1080trailer_updated_animation2.en_US.srt [741 bytes] || 1080trailer_updated_animation2.en_US.vtt [754 bytes] || 1080trailer_updated_animation2_youtube_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [338.7 MB] || 1080trailer_updated_animation2.mov (1920x1080) [1.7 GB] || 1080trailer_updated_animationTEXT_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [14.6 MB] || 1080trailer_updated_animation2_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [14.1 MB] || ", "hits": 50 }, { "id": 12978, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12978/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-07-20T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe--Mission Overview", "description": "Parker Solar Probe will swoop to within 4 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.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.In 2017, the mission was renamed for Eugene Parker, the S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. In the 1950s, Parker proposed a number of concepts about how stars—including our Sun—give off energy. He called this cascade of energy the solar wind, and he described an entire complex system of plasmas, magnetic fields, and energetic particles that make up this phenomenon. Parker also theorized an explanation for the superheated solar atmosphere, the corona, which is – contrary to what was expected by physics laws -- hotter than the surface of the sun itself. 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He is the first living person to have a spacecraft named after him and now stands to become the firzst person to see his namesake mission thunder into space.Parker is best known for radically altering ideas about the solar system in the 1950s by proposing the concept of solar wind. As a young scientist at the University of Chicago, he showed that the sun radiates a constant and intense stream of charged particles, which travel throughout the solar system at about one million miles per hour. This is visible as the halo around the sun during an eclipse, and it can affect missions in space as well as satellite communication systems on Earth. Parker’s theory of the solar wind was so groundbreaking that it was at first dismissed by leading experts, and he barely managed to publish the original 1958 paper that presented his theory. But he firmly defended his work and he was ultimately proven correct in 1962 with data collected by the first successful interplanetary mission, the Mariner II space probe to Venus. NASA last year named its most important mission to the sun after Parker as a tribute to his work, which established a new field of solar research. He stands as a giant among researchers who continue to push the boundaries of science, such as UChicago professors Wendy Freedman, the world-renowned astronomer first to precisely measure the expansion rate of the universe, and Michael Turner, who coined the term dark energy. The Parker Solar Probe is scheduled to launch during a window that opens August 6, 2018. The spacecraft will use seven flybys of Venus to slowly reduce its orbital distance and drop closer to the sun. Three of the spacecraft’s orbits will bring it within 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface—approximately seven times closer than any other previous probe.“The solar probe is going to a region of space that has never been explored before. It’s very exciting that we’ll finally get a look,” said Parker, who was on the UChicago faculty from 1955 to 1995. “One would like to have some more detailed measurements of what’s going on in the solar wind. I’m sure that there will be some surprises. There always are.”The probe’s observations will help scientists understand why the corona is hotter than the sun’s surface, how the solar wind is accelerated and how to forecast its flares, among other questions. “Gene Parker’s story is about challenging assumptions. He came up with a new theory and proved that theory through meticulous, scientific calculations,” said Angela Olinto, dean of physical science at the UChicago. “Gene carries on a great tradition at UChicago of questioning the status quo to make discoveries and create whole new fields of science.”Although Parker is the first living person to have a spacecraft named after him, he is the fifth of his peers at UChicago to have the honor, with the other four having won the recognition posthumously. They include alumnus Edwin Hubble, AB 1910, PhD 1917, with the Hubble Space Telescope; Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a UChicago professor who worked with Parker, with the Chandra X-ray Observatory; Enrico Fermi, a Nobel laureate and UChicago professor, with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope; and Nobel laureate Arthur Holly Compton, a UChicago professor, with the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 13003, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13003/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-07-20T12:30:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Science Briefing - Visual Resources", "description": "July 20, 2018 - Live from NASA Kennedy - 1:00 p.m. ESTHosted by Karen Fox - Heliophysics Communications Lead, NASA Goddard/NASA HQSpeakers:Nicola Fox - Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LabAlex Young - Solar Scientist from NASA GoddardThomas Zurbuchen - Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASABetsy Congdon - Thermal Protection System Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 12997, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12997/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-07-12T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Beauty Images", "description": "Still ImageParker Solar Probe sits in a clean room on July 6, 2018, at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, after the installation of its heat shield.Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman || 5D1_9384_print.jpg (1024x774) [479.3 KB] || 5D1_9384.jpg (3840x2903) [6.6 MB] || 5D1_9384_searchweb.png (320x180) [88.4 KB] || 5D1_9384_web.png (320x241) [114.7 KB] || 5D1_9384_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || ", "hits": 112 }, { "id": 12999, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12999/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-07-12T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Path Across Sun's Surface", "description": "The velocity of Parker Solar Probe is fastest right at perihelion. The spacecraft is so fast that near perihelion, it flies faster than the Sun rotates. This animation illustrates this by following the track of the spacecraft on map of the surface of the Sun. When the spacecraft flies faster than the Sun rotates, the orbit track on the surface goes backward (retrograde). At the turning points (labeled co-rotation periods), the spacecraft and the Sun are essential moving together (co-rotation). These periods of time, which last many hours, will be invaluable for making continuous measurements of solar wind from the same source.Credit: NASA/JPL/WISPR Team || 12999_PSPRelativeMotionToSun2018V81080p.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [100.7 KB] || 12999_PSPRelativeMotionToSun2018V81080p.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [54.3 KB] || 12999_PSPRelativeMotionToSun2018V81080p.00001_web.png (320x180) [54.3 KB] || 12999_PSPRelativeMotionToSun2018V81080p.00001_thm.png (80x40) [3.5 KB] || 12999_PSPRelativeMotionToSun2018V81080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [76.2 MB] || PRORES_B-ROLL_12999_PSPRelativeMotionToSun2018V81080p_prores.mov (1280x720) [335.3 MB] || YOUTUBE_1080_12999_PSPRelativeMotionToSun2018V81080p_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [71.6 MB] || NASA_TV_12999_PSPRelativeMotionToSun2018V81080p.mpeg (1280x720) [156.1 MB] || 12999_PSPRelativeMotionToSun2018V81080p.webm (1920x1080) [3.7 MB] || 12999_PSPRelativeMotionToSun2018V81080p_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [22.9 MB] || NASA_PODCAST_12999_PSPRelativeMotionToSun2018V81080p_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [6.6 MB] || ", "hits": 213 }, { "id": 12998, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12998/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-07-12T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Orbit From August 2018 - March 2019", "description": "This animation shows the first few orbits of Parker Solar Probe from August 2018 to March 2019 which includes two encounters with Venus. Note that the last orbit in this animation goes closer to the Sun than the early ones. This is because Parker Solar Probe uses “gravity assists” from Venus to modify its orbit to bring it closer to the Sun. The perihelion of the first orbit is about 35 solar radii whereas the perihelia of the final three orbits (December 2024 to June 2025) are less than 10 solar radii. 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A mission sixty years in the making, Parker Solar Probe will make a historic journey to the Sun’s corona, a region of the solar atmosphere. With the help of its revolutionary heat shield, now permanently attached to the spacecraft in preparation for its August 2018 launch, the spacecraft’s orbit will carry it to within 4 million miles of the Sun's fiercely hot surface, where it will collect unprecedented data about the inner workings of the corona. The eight-foot-diameter heat shield will safeguard everything within its umbra, the shadow it casts on the spacecraft. At Parker Solar Probe’s closest approach to the Sun, temperatures on the heat shield will reach nearly 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, but the spacecraft and its instruments will be kept at a relatively comfortable temperature of about 85 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat shield is made of two panels of superheated carbon-carbon composite sandwiching a lightweight 4.5-inch-thick carbon foam core. The Sun-facing side of the heat shield is also sprayed with a specially formulated white coating to reflect as much of the Sun’s energy away from the spacecraft as possible. The heat shield itself weighs only about 160 pounds – here on Earth, the foam core is 97% air. Because Parker Solar Probe travels so fast – 430,000 miles per hour at its closest approach to the Sun, fast enough to travel from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., in about one second – the shield and spacecraft have to be light to achieve the needed orbit. The reinstallation of the Thermal Protection System – which was briefly attached to the spacecraft during testing at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, in fall 2017 – marks the first time in months that Parker Solar Probe has been fully integrated. The heat shield and spacecraft underwent testing and evaluation separately at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, before shipping out to Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, in April 2018. With the recent reunification, Parker Solar Probe inches closer to launch and toward the Sun. Parker Solar Probe is part of NASA’s Living with a Star Program, or LWS, to explore aspects of the Sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society. LWS is managed by NASA Goddard for the Heliophysics Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory manages the Parker Solar Probe mission for NASA. APL designed and built the spacecraft and will also operate it. || ", "hits": 192 }, { "id": 4653, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4653/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2018-06-05T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter Trajectories", "description": "This visualization opens near Earth for the launch of Parker Solar Probe August 12, 2018. Then the camera moves around the Sun to match of with Earth again for the launch of Solar Orbiter in 2020. After that, the camera moves in a slow drift around the Sun as the orbits evolve. The Parker Solar Probe orbit fades out after the nominal end of mission in 2025. This version has longer orbit trails to better view orbit changes, and the red along the orbits indicate the nominal science operations portions of the missions. || ParkerAndSolarOrbiter.InnerTourDeluxe.HAE.AU.clockSlate_EarthTarget.HD1080i.02000_print.jpg (1024x576) [100.7 KB] || DeluxeTour (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || ParkerAndSolarOrbiter.InnerTourDeluxe.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [17.6 MB] || ParkerAndSolarOrbiter.InnerTourDeluxe.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [179.8 MB] || DeluxeTour (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || ParkerAndSolarOrbiter.InnerTourDeluxe_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [489.0 MB] || ParkerAndSolarOrbiter.InnerTourDeluxe.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [270 bytes] || ParkerAndSolarOrbiter.InnerTourDeluxe_2160p30.mp4.hwshow [211 bytes] || ", "hits": 233 }, { "id": 12953, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12953/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-05-17T18:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Gets Visit From Namesake", "description": "B-rollEugene N. Parker, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, today visited the spacecraft that bears his name: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. This is the first NASA mission that has been named for a living researcher, and is humanity’s first mission to the Sun.Parker proposed the existence of the constant outflow of solar material from the sun, which is now called the solar wind, and theorized other fundamental stellar science processes. On Oct. 3, 2017, he viewed the spacecraft in a clean room at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, where the probe was designed and is being built. He discussed the revolutionary heat shield and instruments with the Parker Solar Probe team and learned how the spacecraft will answer some of the crucial questions Parker identified about how stars work.NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is scheduled for launch on July 31, 2018, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The spacecraft 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 improve forecasts of major eruptions on the sun and subsequent space weather events that impact life on Earth, as well as satellites and astronauts in space.Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Lee Hobson || EugeneParkerVisitsPSPSC_March10_2017_large.00333_print.jpg (1024x576) [84.6 KB] || EugeneParkerVisitsPSPSC_March10_2017_large.00333_searchweb.png (320x180) [77.0 KB] || EugeneParkerVisitsPSPSC_March10_2017_large.00333_web.png (320x180) [77.0 KB] || EugeneParkerVisitsPSPSC_March10_2017_large.00333_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || EugeneParkerVisitsPSPSC_March10_2017.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.1 GB] || PRORES_B-ROLL_EugeneParkerVisitsPSPSC_March10_2017_prores.mov (1280x720) [4.4 GB] || YOUTUBE_1080_EugeneParkerVisitsPSPSC_March10_2017_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.0 GB] || NASA_TV_EugeneParkerVisitsPSPSC_March10_2017.mpeg (1280x720) [2.1 GB] || EugeneParkerVisitsPSPSC_March10_2017_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [327.6 MB] || EugeneParkerVisitsPSPSC_March10_2017_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [632.9 MB] || EugeneParkerVisitsPSPSC_March10_2017_large.webm (1920x1080) [69.5 MB] || NASA_PODCAST_EugeneParkerVisitsPSPSC_March10_2017_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [112.3 MB] || ", "hits": 87 }, { "id": 12946, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12946/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-05-08T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Power: Parker Solar Probe Tests Its Arrays", "description": "NASA’s Parker Solar Probe gets its power from the Sun, so the solar arrays that collect energy from our star need to be in perfect working order. This month, members of the mission team tested of the arrays at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, to ensure the system performs as designed and provides power to the spacecraft during its historic mission to the Sun.Parker Solar Probe is powered by two solar arrays, totaling just under 17 square feet (1.55 square meters) in area. They are mounted to motorized arms that will retract almost all of their surface behind the Thermal Protection System – the heat shield – when the spacecraft is close to the Sun. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 12927, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12927/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-04-16T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Looking at the Corona with WISPR on Parker Solar Probe", "description": "The Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR, is aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe to take images of the solar corona (the Sun’s atmosphere) and inner heliosphere. WISPR’s telescopes will provide white-light images of the solar wind, shocks, solar ejecta and other structures as they approach and pass the spacecraft. Parker Solar Probe is scheduled for launch in July 2018. It will be the first spacecraft ever to fly through the solar corona to investigate the evolution of the solar wind and heating of the solar corona. WISPR does not look directly at the Sun. Its very wide field-of-view extends from 13° away from the center of the Sun to 108° from the Sun. || ", "hits": 104 }, { "id": 12917, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12917/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-04-13T19:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Travels to Florida", "description": "Parker Solar Probe Arrives in FloridaOn April 4, 2018, Parker Solar Probe project scientist Nicky Fox of Johns Hopkins APL describes the spacecraft's April 3 journey to Florida and arrival at Astrotech Space Operations, the probe's new home before a scheduled launch on July 31, 2018 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Lee HobsonWatch this video on the Johns Hopkins APL YouTube channel. || LARGE_MP4_12917_Nicky_Fox_Welcomes_PSP_To_ASO_UHD_large.00033_print.jpg (1024x576) [103.8 KB] || LARGE_MP4_12917_Nicky_Fox_Welcomes_PSP_To_ASO_UHD_large.00033_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || LARGE_MP4_12917_Nicky_Fox_Welcomes_PSP_To_ASO_UHD_large.00033_web.png (320x180) [85.2 KB] || LARGE_MP4_12917_Nicky_Fox_Welcomes_PSP_To_ASO_UHD_large.00033_searchweb.png (320x180) [85.2 KB] || PRORES_B-ROLL_12917_Nicky_Fox_Welcomes_PSP_To_ASO_UHD_prores.mov (1280x720) [642.5 MB] || 12917_Nicky_Fox_Welcomes_PSP_To_ASO_UHD_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [48.0 MB] || NASA_TV_12917_Nicky_Fox_Welcomes_PSP_To_ASO_UHD.mpeg (1280x720) [309.1 MB] || 12917_Nicky_Fox_Welcomes_PSP_To_ASO_UHD_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [48.0 MB] || YOUTUBE_1080_12917_Nicky_Fox_Welcomes_PSP_To_ASO_UHD_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [146.4 MB] || LARGE_MP4_12917_Nicky_Fox_Welcomes_PSP_To_ASO_UHD_large.mp4 (3840x2160) [97.6 MB] || Nicky_Fox_Welcomes_PSP_To_ASO_UHD.mp4 (3840x2160) [502.0 MB] || YOUTUBE_4K_12917_Nicky_Fox_Welcomes_PSP_To_ASO_UHD_youtube_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [373.1 MB] || LARGE_MP4_12917_Nicky_Fox_Welcomes_PSP_To_ASO_UHD_large.webm (3840x2160) [12.3 MB] || 12917_Parker_Solar_Probe_Arrives_in_Florida.en_US.srt [1.3 KB] || 12917_Parker_Solar_Probe_Arrives_in_Florida.en_US.vtt [1.3 KB] || 12917_Nicky_Fox_Welcomes_PSP_To_ASO_UHD_Prores.mov (3840x2160) [4.9 GB] || 12917_Nicky_Fox_Welcomes_PSP_To_ASO_UHD_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [15.8 MB] || ", "hits": 141 }, { "id": 12841, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12841/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-01-30T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe: Solar60 Series", "description": "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. || 1800101Solar6001PSPTVacV31080p.00037_print.jpg (1024x576) [194.3 KB] || 1800101Solar6001PSPTVacV31080p.00037_searchweb.png (320x180) [112.2 KB] || 1800101Solar6001PSPTVacV31080p.00037_web.png (320x180) [112.2 KB] || 1800101Solar6001PSPTVacV31080p.00037_thm.png (80x40) [7.6 KB] || 1800101Solar6001PSPTVacV31080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [189.9 MB] || 1800101Solar6001PSPTVacV31080p.webm (1920x1080) [12.1 MB] || Solar60_1captions.en_US.srt [1.7 KB] || Solar60_1captions.en_US.vtt [1.7 KB] || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 12795, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12795/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-12-06T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe: Environmental Testing", "description": "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. || ", "hits": 151 }, { "id": 12729, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12729/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-09-22T19:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Animations", "description": "Animated Sequence Of Parker Solar ProbeCredit: NASA/JHUAPL || ParkerSolarProbe-AnimatedSequence.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [41.9 KB] || ParkerSolarProbe-AnimatedSequence.00001_searchweb.png (180x320) [37.2 KB] || ParkerSolarProbe-AnimatedSequence.00001_web.png (320x180) [37.2 KB] || ParkerSolarProbe-AnimatedSequence.00001_thm.png (80x40) [3.2 KB] || ParkerAnimatedSeq.mov (1920x1080) [2.9 GB] || ParkerAnimatedSeq.mp4 (1920x1080) [343.1 MB] || ParkerAnimatedSeq.webm (1920x1080) [21.1 MB] || ", "hits": 334 }, { "id": 12726, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12726/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-09-22T18:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe: Testing and Integration", "description": "Main flight harness installation.Credit: NASA/JHUAPL || LARGE_MP4-12726_ParkerSolarProbe_17-04-05_Top_Deck_SACS_Installation_Dolbow_Ruiz_17-00072_large.00021_print.jpg (1024x576) [120.4 KB] || LARGE_MP4-12726_ParkerSolarProbe_17-04-05_Top_Deck_SACS_Installation_Dolbow_Ruiz_17-00072_large.00021_searchweb.png (320x180) [75.4 KB] || LARGE_MP4-12726_ParkerSolarProbe_17-04-05_Top_Deck_SACS_Installation_Dolbow_Ruiz_17-00072_large.00021_web.png (320x180) [75.4 KB] || LARGE_MP4-12726_ParkerSolarProbe_17-04-05_Top_Deck_SACS_Installation_Dolbow_Ruiz_17-00072_large.00021_thm.png (80x40) [5.6 KB] || 12726_ParkerSolarProbe_17-04-05_Top_Deck_SACS_Installation_Dolbow_Ruiz_17-00072_prores.mov (1920x1080) [2.9 GB] || PRORES_B-ROLL-12726_ParkerSolarProbe_17-04-05_Top_Deck_SACS_Installation_Dolbow_Ruiz_17-00072_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.5 GB] || YOUTUBE_1080-12726_ParkerSolarProbe_17-04-05_Top_Deck_SACS_Installation_Dolbow_Ruiz_17-00072_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [373.7 MB] || APPLE_TV-12726_ParkerSolarProbe_17-04-05_Top_Deck_SACS_Installation_Dolbow_Ruiz_17-00072_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [117.9 MB] || NASA_TV-12726_ParkerSolarProbe_17-04-05_Top_Deck_SACS_Installation_Dolbow_Ruiz_17-00072.mpeg (1280x720) [697.9 MB] || LARGE_MP4-12726_ParkerSolarProbe_17-04-05_Top_Deck_SACS_Installation_Dolbow_Ruiz_17-00072_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [209.3 MB] || 17-04-05_Top_Deck_SACS_Installation_Dolbow_Ruiz_17-00072_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [408.5 MB] || LARGE_MP4-12726_ParkerSolarProbe_blanketing_17-08-01-08_SPP_Timelapse_17-00_large.webm (1280x720) [15.6 MB] || NASA_PODCAST-12726_ParkerSolarProbe_17-04-05_Top_Deck_SACS_Installation_Dolbow_Ruiz_17-00072_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [38.5 MB] || ", "hits": 108 }, { "id": 12728, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12728/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-09-22T17:00:00-04:00", "title": "What is Parker Solar Probe?", "description": "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. || ", "hits": 161 }, { "id": 30822, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30822/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2016-12-06T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Heliophysics Fleet", "description": "The current Heliophysics fleet || hpd-fleet-chart-jan-2024_print.jpg (1024x576) [180.0 KB] || hpd-fleet-chart-jan-2024.png (3840x2160) [7.3 MB] || hpd-fleet-chart-jan-2024_searchweb.png (320x180) [91.3 KB] || hpd-fleet-chart-jan-2024_thm.png (80x40) [7.2 KB] || nasas-fleets-by-division-helio-jewel.hwshow [228 bytes] ||", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 12281, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12281/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-06-10T18:00:00-04:00", "title": "Instagram: Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth", "description": "Our sun's adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been just the key to seeding life as we know it.Some 4 billion years ago, the sun shone with only about three-quarters the brightness we see today, but its surface roiled with giant eruptions spewing enormous amounts of solar material and radiation out into space. These powerful solar explosions may have provided the crucial energy needed to warm Earth, despite the sun's faintness. The eruptions also may have furnished the energy needed to turn simple molecules into the complex molecules such as RNA and DNA that were necessary for life. The research was published in Nature Geoscience on May 23, 2016, by a team of scientists from NASA.Understanding what conditions were necessary for life on our planet helps us both trace the origins of life on Earth and guide the search for life on other planets. Until now, however, fully mapping Earth's evolution has been hindered by the simple fact that the young sun wasn't luminous enough to warm Earth.\"Back then, Earth received only about 70 percent of the energy from the sun than it does today,\" said Vladimir Airapetian, lead author of the paper and a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. \"That means Earth should have been an icy ball. Instead, geological evidence says it was a warm globe with liquid water. We call this the Faint Young Sun Paradox. Our new research shows that solar storms could have been central to warming Earth.\" || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 12165, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12165/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-03-03T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "2016 Total Solar Eclipse Live Shots", "description": "Solar Eclipse Live Shot Roll-ins || Solar_Eclipse_Rollins_h264_print.jpg (1024x576) [28.9 KB] || Solar_Eclipse_Rollins.webmhd.webm (1280x720) [23.6 MB] || Solar_Eclipse_Rollins_h264.mov (1280x720) [499.9 MB] || Solar_Eclipse_Rollins.mov (1280x720) [1.7 GB] || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 3966, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3966/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-09-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Heliospheric Future: Parker Solar Probe (formerly Solar Probe Plus) & Solar Orbiter", "description": "Two future missions scheduled for detailed studies of the Sun and solar atmosphere are Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter.Parker Solar Probe will move in a highly-elliptical orbit, using gravity-assists from Venus to move it closer to the Sun with each pass. The goal is to get the spacecraft to fly through the corona at a distance of 9.5 solar radii.Solar Orbiter will use Earth and Venus gravity assists to move into a relatively circular orbit, inside the orbit of Mercury for monitoring the Sun. || ", "hits": 46 } ] }