The Parker Solar Probe flew through a coronal mass ejection in 2021, finding clues that are helping to unravel the mystery of space weather.
For the past six years, the Parker Solar Probe has been traveling through the inner solar system to become the first spacecraft to “touch” the Sun. With each close approach to the star, the probe gathers more clues as to what triggers the Sun’s mysterious outbursts. During a 2021 encounter with the Sun, NASA’s solar probe captured a coronal mass ejection , an explosive outburst of high energy radiation, in unprecedented detail.
On the Sun, turbulent eddies could take place inside a coronal mass ejection as the plasma interacts with the solar wind in the background. “The turbulence that gives rise to KHI plays a fundamental role in regulating the dynamics of CMEs flowing through the ambient solar wind,” Evangelos Paouris, a member of the Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe Science Team, and lead author of the new paper, said in a statement.
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