We got so excited with all the new updates and we said “millions” when in fact solar wind travels at hundreds kilometers per second. Thanks for all your help on spotting this!
All the discoveries and photos that the Parker Solar Probe has made are marvelous. But what amazes me the most is the engineering that went into creating this probe that can fly So Close to the 😎!!!
It really is incredible. I never thought it would be possible to get this close to a star. Not to mention the ability to send signals back through that chaos
So now do we redefine what it means to „touch“ the sun with every close encounter of the Parker solar probe? You can’t say twice that something happened for the 1st time!
I'm not surprised at all that the sun's atmospheric thickness varies with local magnetic field strength, exactly what you'd expect from ions interacting with a strong enough magnetic field around a star that has a bunch of magnetic activity besides the two primary poles.
No, listen carefully. They said 'solid surface' @0:25, surface is defined as the uppermost layer of smth, doesn't have to be solid unless specified. So their use of surface @2:05 is correct as it refers to the uppermost gas layer of the sun.
The mistakes are intentional so there are a lot of people who comment improving the engagement and thus score the channel higher in the youtube searches.
We actually don't know if the sun has a surface. There are scientific papers that make great arguments for it. Some of them being more logical than the non surface theories.
EXCUSE ME!? MILLIONS OF KM PER SECOND!? Did you mean HOUR!? Because the speed of light is 300 THOUSAND kilometer per second! NO way the wind goes faster than light!
What particles? What are the particles? How are the particles made? Sun is mostly made of Hydrogen, then Helium. Charged particles are what? Gamma Rays? X-rays? Ions?
Why make a music video that makes it annoying to concentrate on the content? Imagine there were people who interested in the content? I know, it is an audacious claim to make, but I think there are people who are interested in scientific content!
(1:00) "propelled by the Sun at *millions of km/s* …". Oh cool, so propelled faster than the speed of light? Light goes at just under 0.3 million km/s, and these particles go even faster? Seriously, this is the second video in a row by *this host* with a bunch of glaring mistakes, the other day it was rockets going 28 million km/h and calling the MIR station M-I-R. What a joke, Seeker please get a host who actually understands what they are talking about. 🤡
A remarkable acheivement, but that's not "touching the sun" in the same way that flying through the outer edge of our atmosphere isn't the same thing as "touching the earth".
