
Solar Wind
In Our Time: Science
Parker Solar Probe: The Most Autonomous Spacecraft Ever Built
Parker Solar Probe has to be completely autonomous, it has to live by itself for weeks on end without any communications and without any control from the ground. So that's an enormous technological issue. There's a huge number of new furs on this mission, but measuring the particles, the fields, the visible ultraviolet radiation coming from the sun is what we hope to get with the solar wind.
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