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Absolutely.

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So 3.8 million miles sounds pretty far.

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But it's actually flying,
through the solar corona.

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That's the upper atmosphere of the sun.

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And if you had a, a football field
with the Earth at one side and the Sun

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at the other, Parker Solar Probe
would be right at the four yard line.

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So it really is in the red zone
here, in more ways than one.

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And, really
an unprecedented view of our sun.

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Sure.

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So, yeah, our sun is a constant,
but it's incredibly dynamic.

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And you have to remember

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that everything that our sun does
affects us here on Earth.

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So it's really important
that we drill in and,

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really deeply understand
what's going on at the sun.

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So, for instance,
we're here at, Solar maximum,

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which is the time that the sun is
the most, dynamic, and it has explosions

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all the time, these huge coronal mass
ejections and solar flares,

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and those are the biggest,
most energetic explosions

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in our solar system and, actually larger
than the entire planet Earth.

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They're really just, some,
some unbelievable, things to observe.

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And so by passing this close to the sun,

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we're able to observe these,
explosions close up.

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And instead of having them
get all stirred up and blurred

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by the time, they reach the earth,
we're getting to see the pristine,

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processes happening
right up close to their origin.