NASA to Present First Parker Solar Probe Findings in Media Teleconference
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.
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.
• 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.