"Unprecedented Collaboration: Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter Join Forces to Solve Decades-Old Sun Enigma"
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft and the Parker Solar Probe have collaborated to make a groundbreaking measurement that brings scientists closer to solving the mystery of why the sun's atmosphere, or corona, is hotter than its surface. The collaboration allowed for simultaneous solar observations, indicating that turbulence is likely heating the solar corona to incredible temperatures. This team-up could finally solve the "coronal heating mystery" that has puzzled scientists for 65 years. The research suggests that turbulence in the sun's atmosphere is transferring energy and causing coronal heating, but further confirmation is needed.