Name: Touching the Sun
Uploaded: 2019-01-01
Duration: 10 min 18 s
Description: For all of human history, the Sun, our home star, has measured our days and our seasons while fueling all life on Earth. Yet it remains an enigma. NASA's Parker Probe Plus is on a mission to change that -- flying through dangerous radiation to become the closest spaceship to orbit our Sun.

For all of human history, the Sun, our home star, has measured our days and our seasons while fueling all life on Earth. Yet it remains an enigma. NASA's Parker Probe Plus is on a mission to change that -- flying through dangerous radiation to become the closest spaceship to orbit our Sun.

See how NASA's Parker Solar Probe pushes closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before it, enduring extreme radiation to gather data from the corona. This episode unpacks the engineering, the unanswered solar mysteries, and why understanding space weather matters on Earth. Sign up to watch a mission that turns cutting-edge science into real-world stakes.

A daring probe races into the corona to decode our star.

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