The First Results Of Parker Solar Probe’s Visits To The Sun

Parker Solar Probe has made 3 flybys of the Sun within 25million km, and is due to get even closer in the next 2 months. The first major results from the probe have started being published with 4 major papers in this week’s issue of Nature. So here’s a summary of things we’ve found, new features in the solar wind, new smaller flare events, observation of the transition from rotating to non-rotating wind. And a first observation of the dust free zone near the sun. Nature summary of the results. https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158… Highly structured slow solar wind emerging from an equatorial coronal hole https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158… Near-Sun observations of an F-corona decrease and K-corona fine structure https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158… Alfvénic velocity spikes and rotational flows in the near-Sun solar wind https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158… Probing the energetic particle environment near the Sun https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158…