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Parker Solar Probe Videos

Parker Solar Probe will swoop to within 4 million miles of the sun's surface, facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it. Launching in 2018, Parker Solar Probe will provide new data on solar activity and make critical contributions to our ability to forecast major space-weather events that impact life on Earth. In order to unlock the mysteries of the corona, but also to protect a society that is increasingly dependent on technology from the threats of space weather, NASA will send Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun.
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/...
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Levels
  • Intermediate (6-8)
  • Advanced (9-12+)
Material Type
  • Film/Documentary/Show
Heliophysics Big Ideas
  • Big Idea 1.2 – The Sun is active…
  • Big Idea 3.1 – The Sun is made of churning plasma…
  • Big Idea 3.2 – Energy from the Sun is created in the core…
NGSS
  • ESS2 - Earth's Systems
  • PS2 - Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
Heliophysics Topics
  • Corona
  • Solar Wind
  • Space Weather
Heliophysics Missions
  • Parker Solar Probe
Material Cost per Learner Free
Language English

These four short videos (<4 minutes), including the mission overview video above, examine the challenges of NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission to touch the Sun. The spacecraft will enter the Sun's atmosphere, the corona, and make its closest approach to the Sun in 2025.

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Getting to the Sun:

Orbital Path:

Why Won’t it Melt?: