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So, Parker's just released its first results from the first two orbits around the Sun. We have some amazing science that we've

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seen for the first time.

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Hi, my name is Dr. Eric Christian and I'm a Senior Research Scientist in the Heliophysics division at NASA's Goddard

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Space Flight Center.

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This is really exciting new science that we're getting from Parker.

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There's the fact that the solar wind is not as steady as we thought it might be. There are strange twists in the magnetic field

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and pulses that happen in the solar wind we just weren't expecting.

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We've seen things that we only dreamed about from

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93 million miles away at Earth.

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Only by going up close to where the action is can we really understand the Sun.

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The Sun has a constant solar wind, but also with that solar wind are storms, solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

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The storms especially can do damage to technology in space. So we need to get to the point where we can predict space

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weather the way meteorologists predict weather here on Earth.

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Parker's doing the basic science that will let us predict solar storms in the future.