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NASA's Parker Solar Probe is the first spacecraft to ever enter the sun ...
NASA launches probe on historic mission to study the sun 02:38. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived a three year journey and a roughly 2 million degree Fahrenheit environment to do what ...
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NASA flew a probe into the sun’s outer corona for the first time
The Parker Solar Probe passed within 6.5 million miles of the sun's surface—and NASA wants to fly it even closer. By Hannah Seo Published Dec 15, 2021 1:00 PM EST ...
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Parker Solar Probe touches the sun for the first time, bringing new ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the sun's upper atmosphere—called the corona—sampling particles and characterizing magnetic ... In 2019, though, at 34 solar radii from the sun, ...
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NASA spacecraft enters the sun's atmosphere for the first time - NPR
The Parker Solar Probe's first passage through the corona, which lasted a few hours, is one of many that are planned for the mission, according to NASA. The next flyby is expected to occur in ...
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How space missions make discoveries on the way to their main ...
Many solar system missions have made significant discoveries during such flybys, from the earliest probes of the 1970s to BepiColombo’s recent Mercury flyby and perhaps Europa Clipper’s Mars ...