Listen to the Solar Wind With New Data From NASA's Parker Solar Probe

The data could help scientists understand why the sun's corona is so much hotter than its surface.

By Erika K. Carlson
Jan 28, 2020 9:50 PMJan 28, 2020 10:11 PM
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe. (Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)

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The Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft launched in 2018 on a mission to explore the sun's outer layers, is already revealing new insights about our star. Now, scientists have translated some of the probe’s measurements into funky sound clips that you can listen to on their SoundCloud page or in the embedded video below.

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