parkersolarprobe – PSP/FIELDS

Initial plot from PSP Magnetometer Boom deploy

pulupa August 20, 2018

Here's what one of the @PSP_FIELDS magnetometers saw: The large spacecraft-generated field rapidly drops off as the boom deploys and carries the magnetometer away from the spacecraft body–that means we […]

Tools of the Trade: How Parker Solar Probe Will Study the Sun

pulupa August 6, 2018

https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/176450633409/tools-of-the-trade-how-parker-solar-probe-will

Space probe to plunge into fiery corona of the sun

pulupa August 6, 2018

Space probe to plunge into fiery corona of the sun: https://t.co/dftvpBnsy5 "The solar probe will travel faster than any spacecraft in history… Sticking a spacecraft right in the hot plasma […]