NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to Sun
Dec 27, 2024 · NASA's Parker Solar Probe survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, the spacecraft hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever moved.
Parker Solar Probe - NASA Science
Aug 12, 2018 · Parker Solar Probe is designed to swoop within about 4 million miles (6.5 million kilometers) of the Sun's surface to trace the flow of energy, to study the heating of the solar corona, and to explore what accelerates the solar wind.
Parker Solar Probe - Wikipedia
The Parker Solar Probe is the first spacecraft to fly into the low solar corona. It will assess the structure and dynamics of the Sun's coronal plasma and magnetic field, the energy flow that heats the solar corona and impels the solar wind, and the …
Parker Solar Probe Begins Record-Setting Closest Approach to …
Dec 20, 2024 · Parker Solar Probe was developed as a part of NASA’s Living With a Star program to explore aspects of the Sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society. The Living With a Star program is managed by the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe beams home 1st detailed update after …
4 days ago · This New Year's Day, NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home its first detailed telemetry data soon after its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun.
History-making probe achieves closest-ever approach to the sun
Dec 23, 2024 · The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface during humanity’s closest ...
NASA Science Live: Parker Solar Probe Nears Historic Close …
Dec 17, 2024 · Say hello to the fastest-moving human-made object, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. On a mission to “touch” the Sun, this spacecraft is set to make history on Dec. 24, 2024, by making its closest dive through the Sun’s upper atmosphere, known as the corona.
10 Things to Know About Parker Solar Probe - NASA Science
Aug 12, 2018 · Parker Solar Probe is named for Dr. Eugene Parker, the first person to predict the existence of the solar wind. In 1958, Parker developed a theory showing how the Sun’s hot corona – by then known to be millions of degrees Fahrenheit – is so hot that it …
Parker Solar Probe - NASA
Mar 7, 2023 · NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) will be the first-ever mission to “touch” the sun. The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, will travel directly into the sun’s atmosphere about 4 million miles from our star’s surface.
NASA Enters the Solar Atmosphere for the First Time, Bringing …
Dec 14, 2021 · For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there.