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NASA's Parker Solar Probe is solving long-standing mysteries about the sun. Here's what we've learned so far.

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The goal of the Parker Solar Probe mission is to investigate the mysteries of the sun's corona, its outer atmosphere.

At the moment of closest approach, Parker was traveling at nearly 435,000 mph ( 700,000 km /h), making it the fastest object ever designed by humans.

Astronomers think this is one of the most important ways to study the solar surface.

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute in New York City .

Sutter: Magnetic fields control the evolution of space weather, which involves plasma storms that detach from the sun and go flying through the solar system.

Space weather has a huge impact on satellites, human spaceflight and even our power grids.

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