NASA’s Mission to Touch the Sun -- Parker Solar Probe with Kelly Korreck, NASA
NASA’s Mission to Touch the Sun -- Parker Solar Probe
with Kelly Korreck, NASA Headquarters
Special Online Evening Event - Opening Night Talk I ASP2024: A Virtual Conference
FREE and open to the Public
About the Talk
What is faster than a speeding bullet? What can fly though turbulence without fastening its seat belt? What can tell us about the origins of our solar system at the same time performing its main mission to understand our closest star? NASA’s Parker Solar Probe! The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft was designed to solve 3 mysteries of the Sun as well as the very practical goal of furthering our understanding of space weather. The talk will cover Parker’s measurements of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs- billions of tons of material hurling through space at millions of miles an hour - part of space weather), as well as recent Venus encounters and a few other surprises that Parker has discovered as the mission gets ready for its closest planned approach in December 2024!
About Kelly Korreck
Heliophysicist, Dr. Kelly Korreck, knows how to handle the heat. She built and operated instruments to study the Sun and understand its hot explosive outer atmosphere or corona. Her career has taken her from the desert of New Mexico, to Japan, to the inner most part of the solar system. She was the head of science operations and project manager for the SWEAP Suite aboard Parker Solar Probe. She worked with engineers and scientists to create the best data from this once-in-a-lifetime mission. Kelly served as the NASA Program Manager for the 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipses. Currently, Kelly is a Program Scientist in the Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Astronomy and a PhD in Space Physics both from the University of Michigan.
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The talk is open to the public, but only Conference Attendees will be able to participate in the Q&A with Speaker Korreck after the event.
