{"id":6109,"date":"2021-12-18T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T20:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6109"},"modified":"2021-12-18T13:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T20:24:21","slug":"parker-solar-probe-touches-suns-corona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6109","title":{"rendered":"Parker solar probe touches Sun&#8217;s Corona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What a fascinating time of space exploration we live in. Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, and now the sun. Over the last few years, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parker Solar Probe<\/a> has been making its way towards the sun and taking observations. Setting numerous speed records while doing so. Most recently, however, it <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2021\/nasa-enters-the-solar-atmosphere-for-the-first-time-bringing-new-discoveries\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2021\/nasa-enters-the-solar-atmosphere-for-the-first-time-bringing-new-discoveries\" target=\"_blank\">entered the Sun&#8217;s corona and found fascinating streams of plasma<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"461\" data-attachment-id=\"6110\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=6110\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2021\/12\/nasa-parker-solar-probe-coronal-streamers-2021-12-14.jpeg?fit=1180%2C850&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1180,850\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nasa-parker-solar-probe-coronal-streamers-2021-12-14\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2021\/12\/nasa-parker-solar-probe-coronal-streamers-2021-12-14.jpeg?fit=640%2C461&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2021\/12\/nasa-parker-solar-probe-coronal-streamers-2021-12-14.jpeg?resize=640%2C461&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2021\/12\/nasa-parker-solar-probe-coronal-streamers-2021-12-14.jpeg?resize=1024%2C738&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2021\/12\/nasa-parker-solar-probe-coronal-streamers-2021-12-14.jpeg?resize=300%2C216&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2021\/12\/nasa-parker-solar-probe-coronal-streamers-2021-12-14.jpeg?resize=768%2C553&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2021\/12\/nasa-parker-solar-probe-coronal-streamers-2021-12-14.jpeg?resize=375%2C270&amp;ssl=1 375w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2021\/12\/nasa-parker-solar-probe-coronal-streamers-2021-12-14.jpeg?w=1180&amp;ssl=1 1180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is even video footage from the craft traveling through the corona and being surrounded by these oscillating streams at 3:00 in this video. Give it a watch and learn about the astounding structures and complex discoveries it is making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LkaLfbuB_6E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a fascinating time of space exploration we live in. Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, and now the sun. Over the last few years, the Parker Solar Probe has been making its way towards the sun and taking observations. Setting numerous speed records while doing so. Most recently, however, it entered the Sun&#8217;s corona and found fascinating streams of plasma. There is even video footage from the craft traveling through the corona and being surrounded by these oscillating streams at 3:00 in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6109\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1Ax","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6113,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions\/6113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}