NASA solar probe sends new data on solar secrets

In recent months, NASA's Parker Solar Prop flew closer to the sun than any other spacecraft and the probe has collected as much data as possible so that scientists can better understand the sun.

A team from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland has now received the final 22-gigabyte transmission of scientific data collected during these two meetings, which is 50% more than planned for the moment thanks to the communication system. satellite.

Barker's team discovered shortly after its launch that the probe had been able to increase the downlink rate, which would be useful to ask the probe to send more data from the second meeting in April, where the four scientific vehicle wings of the vehicle were collecting information. Task Force Get an additional 25 GB of scientific data between July 24 and August 15.

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The task force will release data from the first two meetings later in the year, and the satellite will conduct its third round, starting August 27 and approaching the date closest to September 1.

The researchers hope that the mission over the past few years will be able to gather the information needed to uncover some mysteries of the sun's secrets, including explaining why its ions are warmer than its visible surface.