Solar System Missions: Parker Solar Probe
By Aira Astralis
Length1h 48m
About this audiobook
The Parker Solar Probe is the fastest, closest, and most heat-tolerant machine human beings have ever flown, and its purpose is the oldest unsolved question in solar physics: why the Sun's outer atmosphere runs at millions of degrees over a six-thousand-degree surface. Launched in August 2018, the probe repeatedly dives through the Sun's corona, protected by an eleven-centimeter shield of carbon foam, and it is the first NASA spacecraft named for a living person, the physicist Eugene Parker, who predicted the solar wind it flies through.
This book tells the whole story in plain, equation-free language. The opening chapters carry the history: the eclipse observers who mapped the crown, the comet tails that betrayed a wind, and the thirty-one-year-old theorist whose 1958 paper was nearly buried and vindicated within four years.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning
Length1 hr 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter 1: The Riddle of the Crown
3Chapter 2: Comet Tails and the First Whisper of a Wind
4Chapter 3: The Thirty-One-Year-Old Heretic
5Chapter 4: The Father of Heliophysics
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6Chapter 5: Sixty Years of Trying
7Chapter 6: Why the Corona Burns
8Chapter 7: Anatomy of the Sun's Atmosphere
9Chapter 8: The Wind from the Sun
10Chapter 9: The Impossible Orbit
11Chapter 10: Eleven Centimeters of Carbon
12Chapter 11: Four Suites of Instruments
13Chapter 12: Touching the Sun
14Chapter 13: The Wind and the Worlds
15Chapter 14: What Remains Unsolved
16Chapter 15: Fun Facts and Trivia, Weighed
17Chapter 16: The Trophy and the Legacy
18Conclusion
19References: Parker Solar Probe
20Glossary
21About the Author
22Series Info
23Copyright
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