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NASA’s Parker probe rings back home after historic sun flyby at 430,000 mph
The Parker Solar Probe broke its record by flying closer to the sun than ever before, reaching a distance of just 3.8 million ...
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 star’s surface.
Nasa’s Parker probe phones home after ‘touching Sun’ in historic mission
Nasa did not have contact with the spacecraft during the historic feat as it endured temperatures of up to 982 degrees ...
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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 ...
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe whizzes within 3.8 million miles of sun, setting a record
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close ... the space agency said in a news release. Two days after the probe zipped within 3.8 million miles of the sun, it managed to transmit a ...