Good morning, 10 News Studio. Happy first day back.

I did it, Pam. I played more video games this summer than I've ever played in my life.

And I even got to play a game that's not even out yet.

Wow. Well, congrats on accomplishing your summer goal.

But we should probably get to work since it is our first episode back.

I hear you, Pam, but it's technically still summer, so I do have some game time left.

Fair enough. So then how do you want to do this?

Well, I was thinking we could talk about the big stories that happened this summer.

In case you were having so much fun doing the things that you love doing that you missed everything that happened this summer.

That's actually a great idea.

Let's do a summer recap to kick off the first episode of season six.

I'm Pamela Kirkland.

And I'm Ryan Willard.

It's Thursday, August 28th.

We are the 10 News and this is 10 things you need to know about the

summer of 2025. 10. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Okay, the first thing you need to know is that science is awesome!

Science showed us something that we've never seen before,

which could be called the sun's bum bum.

What?

The sun's south pole was seen for the first time ever this summer,

thanks to images captured by the solar orbiter spacecraft. The solar orbiter was launched by the

European Space Agency and NASA in 2020 to study the sun. It had a long way to travel and use a little

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