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NASA’s Parker probe rings back home after historic sun flyby at 430,000 mph
NASA’s daring Parker Solar Probe plunged deeper into the sun’s atmosphere than any human-made object before. While performing ...
After Days of Silence, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Phones Home
The probe sent a signal to Earth indicating that it had survived the closest solar encounter ever attempted by a spacecraft.
When will we know if NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived ‘touching’ the sun?
NASA's Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun on4. But did it survive? We're about to find out.
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Spacecraft makes closest-ever fly-by of Sun: what the trip will tell us
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe could solve the mysteries of the solar wind and test Einstein’s theory of relativity.
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe phones home after surviving historic close sun flyby. It's alive!
A NASA spacecraft has survived a historic close fly of the sun. The mission team received a beacon tone from the Parker Solar ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close encounter with sun
The probe accelerated to 430,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft has ever flown, traveling to within 3.8 million miles of the ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to Sun
Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its closest approach to the sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...
NASA Waits With Bated Breath for Signal From Sun-Exploring Spacecraft
This week, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe attempted to get closer to the Sun than any other human-made object. But due to a ...
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Solar Probe touched the Sun, now scientists wait for a signal and "proof of life"
The Parker Solar Probe, traveling at 430,000 mph, reaches 3.8 million miles from the Sun. Scientists now wait for a signal ...
Parker Solar Probe Breaks Record With Closest Ever Sun Flyby, NASA Hopes It Survived
NASA's fastest spacecraft in space - the Parker Solar Probe made history on Christmas eve by making its closest ever approach ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close encounter with sun
He attended the Parker Solar Probe’s launch in 2018, and died in 2022 at age 94. Counterintuitively, the laws of gravity make it hard to fly close to the sun. Objects orbiting the sun at a ...