[SunkenCiv]

There's also an excellent Scott Manley YT vid from 2019, illustrates the various planetary flybys that helped alter the trajectory of the PSP.

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission has returned unprecedented data from near the Sun, culminating in new discoveries published on Dec. 4, 2019, in the journal Nature. Among the findings are new understandings of how the Sun's constant outflow of material, the solar wind, behaves. Seen near Earth -- where it can interact with our planet's natural magnetic field and cause space weather effects that interfere with technology -- the solar wind appears to be a relatively uniform flow of plasma. But Parker Solar Probe's observations reveal a complicated, active system not seen from Earth.

Music Credit: Smooth as Glass by The Freeharmonic Orchestra

5 New Discoveries from NASA's Parker Solar Probe | December 4, 2019 | NASA Goddard

[sit-rep]

Who took the picture??

[Monkey Face]

When you’re hot, you’re hot!

Thanks, SC!

‘Face

;o]

[SunkenCiv]

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Parker Solar Probe has made 3 flybys of the Sun within 25million km, and is due to get even closer in the next 2 months. The first major results from the probe have started being published with 4 major papers in this week's issue of Nature. So here's a summary of things we've found, new features in the solar wind, new smaller flare events, observation of the transition from rotating to non-rotating wind. And a first observation of the dust free zone near the sun.

The First Results Of Parker Solar Probe's Visits To The Sun | December 6, 2019 | Scott Manley

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Orbital mechanics can be oddly unintuitive at times, so I set out to cite a few examples where the most natural thing to do it the opposite of what you want to do.

The Most Confusing Things About Spacecraft Orbits | May 11, 2018 | Scott Manley

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