<h2>About Parker Solar Probe:</h2>

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	<li style="text-align:justify">It was launched in 2018 and will travel through the sun&rsquo;s atmosphere, closer to the surface than any spacecraft before it.</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">In order to unlock the mysteries of the sun&rsquo;s atmosphere this will use Venus&rsquo; gravity during seven flybys over nearly seven years to gradually bring its orbit closer to the sun.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align:justify">Parker Solar Probe has three detailed science objectives:</h3>

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	<li style="text-align:justify">Trace the flow of energy that heats and accelerates the solar corona and solar wind.</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Determine the structure and dynamics of the plasma and magnetic fields at the sources of the solar wind.</li>
	<li style="text-align:justify">Explore mechanisms that accelerate and transport energetic particles.&nbsp;</li>
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<h3>Q1) What is a solar flare?</h3>

A solar flare is an intense burst of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots.

Source:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.space.com/parker-solar-probe-epi-hi-instrument-glitch" style="text-decoration:none">Instrument on NASA&#39;s Parker Solar Probe switches off unexpectedly</a>

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Parker Solar Probe

Overview:

Recently, one of the instruments on NASA's Parker Solar Probe powered down unexpectedly and the mission team expects it to come back online soon.

About Parker Solar Probe: