Paker's COMPONENTS

 

Parker Solar Probe was the first NASA mission named for a living person.

In honor of Eugene Parker, eminent physicist who first predicted the solar wind. NASA announced in May 2017, that it would rename the Solar Probe Plus mission to Parker Solar Probe, the mission was conceived in 1958, but it took 60 years to develop the technology to make it happen.

NASA's historic Parker Solar Probe mission is revolutionizing our understanding of the Sun, where changing conditions can propagate out into the solar system, affecting Earth and other worlds. The primary science goals for the mission are to trace how energy and heat move through the solar corona and to explore what accelerates the solar wind as well as solar energetic particles, to perform these unprecedented investigations, the spacecraft and instruments are protected from the Sun’s heat by the Thermal Protection System a 4.5-inch-thick (11.43 cm) carbon-composite shield, which needs to withstand temperatures outside the spacecraft that reach nearly 2,500 F (1,377 C).

Parker Solar Probe took images and records of the sun and the space weather to know a lot of information and to predict what can happen to us on our Earth as for example the Earth’s ionosphere is important because it reflects and modifies radio waves used for communication and navigation some phenomena such as energetic charged particles and cosmic rays can contribute to the ionosphere, Other solar phenomena such as flares, and changes in the solar wind and geomagnetic storms also effect the charging of the ionosphere.