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Can the Parker solar probe shed light on the Sun?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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What's Going on Inside the Sun?

The sun is a ball of plasma. It's chaotic and very intense. And so measuring those electromagnetic fields close up will give us a sense for like what's going on inside the sun. How are these things flipping? Are these magnetic tubes like reconnecting and snapping to accelerate particles that really is part of the core of the mission of this spacecraft.

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