Absolutely.
So 3.8 million miles sounds pretty far.
But it's actually flying, through the solar corona.
That's the upper atmosphere of the sun.
And if you had a, a football field with the Earth at one side and the Sun
at the other, Parker Solar Probe would be right at the four yard line.
So it really is in the red zone here, in more ways than one.
And, really an unprecedented view of our sun.
Sure.
So, yeah, our sun is a constant, but it's incredibly dynamic.
And you have to remember
that everything that our sun does affects us here on Earth.
So it's really important that we drill in and,
really deeply understand what's going on at the sun.
So, for instance, we're here at, Solar maximum,
which is the time that the sun is the most, dynamic, and it has explosions
all the time, these huge coronal mass ejections and solar flares,
and those are the biggest, most energetic explosions
in our solar system and, actually larger than the entire planet Earth.
They're really just, some, some unbelievable, things to observe.
And so by passing this close to the sun,
we're able to observe these, explosions close up.
And instead of having them get all stirred up and blurred
by the time, they reach the earth, we're getting to see the pristine,
processes happening right up close to their origin.