{"id":3055,"date":"2023-02-20T01:42:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T20:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:31:41","slug":"parker-solar-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/parker-solar-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Parker Solar Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Parker Solar Probe:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was <strong>launched in 2018<\/strong> and will travel through the sun\u2019s atmosphere, closer to the surface than any spacecraft before it.<\/li>\n<li>In order to unlock the <strong>mysteries of the sun\u2019s atmosphere<\/strong> this will use Venus\u2019 gravity during seven flybys over nearly seven years to gradually bring its orbit closer to the sun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Parker Solar Probe has three detailed science objectives:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Trace <strong>the flow of energy<\/strong> that heats and accelerates the <strong>solar corona and solar wind<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Determine the <strong>structure <\/strong>and dynamics of the <strong>plasma and magnetic fields<\/strong> at the sources of the solar wind.<\/li>\n<li>Explore mechanisms that accelerate and transport <strong>energetic particles<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a solar flare?<\/h3>\n<p>A solar flare is an intense burst of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/parker-solar-probe-epi-hi-instrument-glitch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Instrument on NASA&#8217;s Parker Solar Probe switches off unexpectedly<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parker Solar Probe will travel through the sun\u2019s atmosphere, closer to the surface than any spacecraft before it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}