{"id":544819,"date":"2023-09-21T22:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T04:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-7b2a-cerebrodigitalnet.wpcomstaging.com\/por-primera-vez-la-nave-espacial-de-la-nasa-atraviesa-una-violenta-explosion-solar-y-sobrevive-ilesa-eacr\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T22:33:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T04:33:17","slug":"for-the-first-time-nasa-spacecraft-goes-through-a-violent-solar-explosion-and-survives-unscathed-eacr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-7b2a-cerebrodigitalnet.wpcomstaging.com\/en\/for-the-first-time-nasa-spacecraft-goes-through-a-violent-solar-explosion-and-survives-unscathed-eacr\/","title":{"rendered":"For the first time, NASA spacecraft goes through a violent solar explosion and survives unscathed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe achieved a historic milestone by becoming the first spacecraft to fly through a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sun and capturing the event on camera. This remarkable video footage shows the probe navigating through the massive solar eruption on September 5, 2022. The spacecraft traveled through the turbulent wake of the plasma wave’s leading edge, known as its shock wave, before emerging on the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Scientists are keen to study this daring mission to gain a deeper understanding of the sun’s enigmatic inner workings and improve their ability to predict solar eruptions that could pose a threat to Earth. They published their findings one year after the event in The Astrophysical Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is the closest to the sun we’ve ever observed a CME,” remarked Nour Raouafi, a Parker Solar Probe project scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland. “We’ve never seen an event of this magnitude at this distance.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coronal mass ejections are similar to smoke rings and are expelled from sunspots, regions on the sun’s surface characterized by powerful magnetic fields. These magnetic fields form knots and then snap suddenly, launching CMEs at speeds of millions of miles per hour. These ejections sweep up charged particles from the solar wind, creating a large, combined wave front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Parker Solar Probe, launched in August 2018, is equipped with a heat shield and radiators designed for close encounters with the sun. During this event, it was flying just 5.7 million miles (9.2 million km) above the sun’s surface when it encountered the CME.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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