1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,884
So, Parker's just released its first results from the first two orbits around the Sun. We have some amazing science that we've

2
00:00:07,948 --> 00:00:09,500
seen for the first time.

3
00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:15,225
Hi, my name is Dr. Eric Christian and I'm a Senior Research Scientist in the Heliophysics division at NASA's Goddard

4
00:00:15,268 --> 00:00:16,140
Space Flight Center.

5
00:00:16,780 --> 00:00:20,680
This is really exciting new science that we're getting from Parker.

6
00:00:21,020 --> 00:00:28,858
There's the fact that the solar wind is not as steady as we thought it might be. There are strange twists in the magnetic field

7
00:00:28,922 --> 00:00:33,420
and pulses that happen in the solar wind we just weren't expecting.

8
00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:37,900
We've seen things that we only dreamed about from

9
00:00:38,380 --> 00:00:40,680
93 million miles away at Earth.

10
00:00:41,700 --> 00:00:46,000
Only by going up close to where the action is can we really understand the Sun.

11
00:00:46,460 --> 00:00:54,656
The Sun has a constant solar wind, but also with that solar wind are storms, solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

12
00:00:54,724 --> 00:01:02,783
The storms especially can do damage to technology in space. So we need to get to the point where we can predict space

13
00:01:02,852 --> 00:01:07,260
weather the way meteorologists predict weather here on Earth.

14
00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:13,140
Parker's doing the basic science that will let us predict solar storms in the future.