
Can the Parker solar probe shed light on the Sun?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Proteus Solar Probe
There are three computers on board the probe. They vote on what the probe should do at any point when it's independent. To get answers to physics questions that we want, you really do have to get near the sun. Sometimes you can learn things about what's happening really far away just by sampling the photons that get here. But sometimes they're scrambled and that's the case here.
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