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Getting Closer To The Sun Than Ever Before
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:09:46
Publish Date: 2019-12-09 09:00:23
Description: An ambitious mission to get a spacecraft close to the sun has revealed a strange region of space filled with rapidly flipping magnetic fields and rogue plasma waves. Science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce explains how the Parker Solar Probe may help answer one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the sun. Follow Emily Kwong on Twitter @emilykwong1234. Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.
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