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Parker Solar Probe: First spacecraft to 'touch' the sun
The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail. The revolutionary solar probe became the first spacecraft to "touch" the sun when it swooped inside the sun's ...
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Parker Solar Probe to make closest-ever approach to sun on Christmas Eve, NASA says
It's a historic milestone that NASA has been building toward ever since the Parker Solar Probe embarked in 2018 on a mission to study the sun's outer atmosphere. While the spacecraft is due to ...
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Parker Solar Probe survives historic closest-ever flyby of the sun, NASA confirms
"Right now, Parker Solar Probe has achieved what we designed the mission for," Nicola Fox, the associate administrator for NASA Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington ...
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Scientists await signal from NASA's Parker Solar Probe after historic close sun flyby. Will it phone home?
The spacecraft made the closest ever flyby if the sun on Christmas Eve, but it's been silent since Dec. 20. On the heels of a NASA spacecraft's historic close flyby of the sun on Christmas Eve ...