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Ep. 628: The Sun Revisited

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Parker Solar Probe Is Getting Closer and Closer

Parker solar probe is going to be there, getting closer and closer as the sun gets more magnetically tied up. And with each different passage, their hoping to probe not just the sun as a function of distance, but were also experiencing a fairly significant portion of the solar cycle. We we finally started making these perihelians in two thousand 18, and that was solar minimum.

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