NASA's Parker Solar Probe beams home First detailed update

NASA's Parker Solar Probe beams home 1st detailed update after record-breaking approach to the sun
"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never been."
NASA's Parker Solar Probe celebrates Christmas with record smashing 'kiss' of the sun
The daring NASA spacecraft made its closest-ever approach to the sun at 6:53 a.m. EST (1153 GMT) on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).
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 million kilometers of the surface of the sun, beating its own 2023 record of 7.26 million kilometers.
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 Solar Probe aims to fly closer to the sun like never before
Plans call for Parker on Tuesday to hurtle through the sizzling solar atmosphere and pass within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles (6 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface.
NASA probe beams home update after record-breaking flyby of sun
NASA said scientists began receiving more detailed telemetry — or "housekeeping data" — from the spacecraft on New Year's Day.
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 this nail-biting closest approach to the sun's surface, a tense silence fell over mission control as contact was briefly lost.
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The Fastest Spacecraft Ever Heads for Its Close-Up With the Sun
The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass of the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. An image from the Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument of a coronal streamer of the sun ...
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Parker Solar Probe to make closest-ever approach to sun on Christmas Eve, NASA says
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is preparing for its long-anticipated record-setting approach to the surface of the sun. Hurtling around the sun at approximately 430,000 mph, the uncrewed vehicle is ...
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Parker Solar Probe makes history with closest-ever approach to the sun
Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles (around 6.1 million kilometers) above the surface of the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives historic closest-ever flyby to sun
Icarus has nothing on NASA. The space agency’s Parker Solar Probe survived the latest endeavor in its mission to “touch” the sun – flying just 3.8 million miles above the star’s surface ...
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe completes historic Christmas Eve flyby of the sun — but it could take days to know if it survived
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is spending Christmas Eve on a history-making attempt to fly closer to the sun than we have ever been before — a stunning technological feat that scientists liken to ...