Tag: Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP)

ESA Solar Orbiter confirms solar switchback origin theory by UAH’s Dr. Gary Zank

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For the first time a solar switchback has been directly observed that confirms 2020 models by astrophysicist Dr. Gary Zank at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) that theorized how these surprising structures in the solar wind originate.

New research solves Parker Solar Probe’s solar switchbacks surprise

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In newly published research, scientists have for the first time modeled the nature of solar switchbacks – the large and long-duration isolated velocity spikes in the solar wind that surprised researchers when data arrived from the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instruments aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP).

First Parker Solar Probe scientific papers publish in Nature

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The first published science from the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instruments aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) poses a major challenge to our understanding of the dynamics of the near-sun solar wind.