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Astronomy Picture of The Day - Parker: The Solar System from Near the Sun
NASA ^ | 31 Mar, 2025 | Video Credit: NASA, JHUAPL, Naval Research Lab, Parker Solar Probe; h/t: Richard Petarius III; Music

Posted on 03/31/2025 5:12:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: If you watch long enough, a comet will appear. Before then, you will see our Solar System from inside the orbit of Mercury as recorded by NASA's Parker Solar Probe looping around the Sun. The video captures coronal streamers into the solar wind, a small Coronal Mass Ejection, and planets including, in order of appearance, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter. Between the emergence of Earth and Mars, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS appears with a distinctive tail. The continuous fleeting streaks are high energy particles from the Sun impacting Parker's sideways looking camera. The featured time-lapse video was taken last year during Encounter 21, Parker's 21st close approach to the Sun. Studying data and images from Parker are delivering a better understanding of the dynamic Sun's effects on Earth's space weather as well as humanity's power grids, spacecraft, and space-faring astronauts.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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Today's image is a video at the source link.

1 posted on 03/31/2025 5:12:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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Pinging the APOD list

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Today's image is a video at the source link.

2 posted on 03/31/2025 5:13:12 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Looks kind of rough in that neighborhood...and I’m from Texas. Best not to venture any closer to the sun.


3 posted on 03/31/2025 5:21:15 PM PDT by BobL
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To: MtnClimber
Space-farting astronauts? They better be careful out there.


4 posted on 03/31/2025 5:27:39 PM PDT by Bullish (I've never seen such morons... Have you?)
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To: MtnClimber

Imagine taking a shower but instead of water droplets billions of sub-atomic particles blasting you..


5 posted on 03/31/2025 5:33:25 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie

Would you prefer neutrons or gamma rays?


6 posted on 03/31/2025 5:35:30 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

that was an amazing video..


7 posted on 03/31/2025 5:35:44 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: MtnClimber

ask Bruce Banner...


8 posted on 03/31/2025 5:37:08 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie

It was. That’s one tough spacecraft…


9 posted on 03/31/2025 7:05:21 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: MtnClimber

BTW, SpaceX just launched a manned (4 person crew) POLAR orbit mission. 1st one ever.

https://youtu.be/qaMDdNAbg-A


10 posted on 03/31/2025 7:09:12 PM PDT by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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To: mowowie

Over time the solar wind will wear away the shield side and it will fail.


11 posted on 03/31/2025 7:30:55 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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