So, Parker's just released its first results from the first two orbits around the Sun. We have some amazing science that we've
seen for the first time.
Hi, my name is Dr. Eric Christian and I'm a Senior Research Scientist in the Heliophysics division at NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center.
This is really exciting new science that we're getting from Parker.
There's the fact that the solar wind is not as steady as we thought it might be. There are strange twists in the magnetic field
and pulses that happen in the solar wind we just weren't expecting.
We've seen things that we only dreamed about from
93 million miles away at Earth.
Only by going up close to where the action is can we really understand the Sun.
The Sun has a constant solar wind, but also with that solar wind are storms, solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
The storms especially can do damage to technology in space. So we need to get to the point where we can predict space
weather the way meteorologists predict weather here on Earth.
Parker's doing the basic science that will let us predict solar storms in the future.