On September 6, Parker Solar Probe from NASA approached the 113th Perihelion or made a meeting close to the sun. Now to the solar environment that is far different from before. Since the launch of Parker Solar Probe, sin has changed a lot. When the sun changes, it also changes the surrounding environment. The current activity is much higher than previously thought. And this high level of activity is likely to continue during perihelion, only 5.3 million miles from the sun.
Nour Raoufi, Parker Solar Project Scientist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, said, “No one has ever flown through a solar event that is so close to The Sun. Data will be new, and we will learn a lot from it. “
Probe has not flown through the solar event; The Parker Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) instrument has imaged a small amount of CME from a distance, including five of the 10th Perihelion in November 2021. This observation has led to an unexpected discovery about the CME structure. While this perihelion promised to be interesting because of high solar activity, scientists look forward to close meetings in the future. Raoufi said, “While the sun is calm, we did three years of great science. But our view of the sun and corona will be very different now, and we are very curious to see what we will learn next. “