NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to Sun
Dec 27, 2024 · NASA's Parker Solar Probe survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, the spacecraft hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever moved.
January 2025 – Parker Solar Probe - NASA Blogs
Jan 2, 2025 · Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever moved. A beacon tone, received in the mission operations center at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe safe after historic closest-ever approach to sun
Dec 28, 2024 · The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun. Before this week's historic milestone, Parker had flown straight through the sun's corona, the outer atmosphere ...
NASA Parker Solar Probe makes history with closest-ever approach to the Sun
Dec 27, 2024 · Parker Solar Probe is operating normally after passing just 6.1 million kilometres above the Sun’s surface, NASA says. A 2018 artist's concept shows the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft flying into ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun's …
Dec 27, 2024 · NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. Earlier this week, the spacecraft passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles (6 million kilometers) of the scorching star.
History-making probe achieves closest-ever approach to the sun
Dec 23, 2024 · The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface during humanity’s closest...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reports Successful Closest Approach to Sun
Dec 27, 2024 · Following its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has transmitted a beacon tone back to Earth indicating it’s in good health and operating normally.. The mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland received the signal just before midnight EST, on the night of Dec. 26.
Nasa's Parker Solar Probe attempts closest ever approach to Sun - BBC News
Dec 24, 2024 · A Nasa spacecraft is attempting to make history with the closest-ever approach to the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe is plunging into our star's outer atmosphere, enduring brutal temperatures...
Nasa's Parker Solar Probe survives closest-ever approach to Sun
Dec 27, 2024 · Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018, heading to the centre of our solar system. It had already swept past the Sun 21 times, getting ever nearer, but the Christmas Eve visit was record-breaking.
Parker Solar Probe - NASA Science
Aug 12, 2018 · NASA's Parker Solar Probe is diving into the Sun’s atmosphere, facing brutal heat and radiation, on a mission to give humanity its first-ever sampling of a star’s atmosphere. On Dec. 14, 2021, NASA announced that Parker had flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there.