{"id":61461,"date":"2024-12-23T11:17:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T15:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61461"},"modified":"2024-12-23T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T15:17:25","slug":"flying-into-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/flying-into-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Into the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Christmas Eve the Parker Solar Probe is going to enter the Sun’s atmosphere for the first time to study Solar Wind. For radio hobbists of all ilks, this will hopefully help us understand more about the origins of Solar Wind, and thereby help us understand more fully the effects this has on radio signals (and other space weather issues).<\/p>\n

The following is an exerpt from an article on ARS Technica by Eric Berger<\/p>\n

Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore.<\/p>\n

Sure, the spacecraft got some attention when it launched.\u00a0 It is, after all, the fastest moving object that humans have ever built. At its maximum speed, goosed by the gravitational pull of the Sun, the probe reaches a velocity of 430,000 miles per hour, or more than one-sixth of 1 percent the speed of light. That kind of speed would get you from New York City to Tokyo in less than a minute.<\/p>\n

And the Parker Solar Probe also has the distinction of being the first NASA spacecraft named after a living person. At the time of its launch, in August 2018, physicist Eugene Parker was 91 years old.<\/p>\n

But in the six years since the probe has been zipping through outer space and flying by the Sun? Not so much. Let’s face it, the astrophysical properties of the Sun and its complicated structure are not something that most people think about on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

However, the smallish probe\u2014it masses less than a metric ton, and its scientific payload is only about 110 pounds (50 kg)\u2014is about to make its star turn. Quite literally. On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun. It will come within just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) of the solar surface, flying into the solar atmosphere for the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole article here<\/a><\/p>\n

Posted by Robert Gulley K4PKM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Christmas Eve the Parker Solar Probe is going to enter the Sun’s atmosphere for the first time to study Solar Wind. For radio hobbists of all ilks, this will hopefully help us understand more about the origins of Solar Wind, and thereby help us understand more fully the effects this has on radio signals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":61463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3,810],"tags":[10640,10641],"class_list":["post-61461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-space-weather","tag-solar-wind","tag-spacecraft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Parker-Scacecraft.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fZj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41183,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/nasas-solar-probe-reveals-stunning-results\/","url_meta":{"origin":61461,"position":0},"title":"“NASA\u2019s solar probe reveals stunning results”","author":"Thomas","date":"December 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Marty, who shares the following article from Popular Science: NASA\u2019s solar probe reveals stunning results after swooping in close to the sun Rogue plasma waves and sideways, 100,000-mile-per-hour solar winds abound. 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