AGU 2019 - New Science from NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission
Released on December 11, 2019
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 Center Tim Horbury - Professor of Physics, Imperial College London Kelly Korreck - Astrophysicist, Head of Science Operations for SWEAP Suite, Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Nathan Schwadron - Presidential Chair, Norman S. and Anna Marie Waite Professor, University of New Hampshire Karl Battams - Computational Scientist, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory