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A little over a year ago, and about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles) from where you’re currently reading this, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe quietly made history by safely flying …read more Continue reading NASA’s Parker Probe Gets Front Row Seat to CME
Although experimental verification is at the heart of the scientific method, there is quite a difficulty range when it comes to setting up such an experiment. Testing what underlies the …read more Continue reading Parker Solar Probe’s Confirmation of Interchange Reconnection Being the Source of Fast Solar Wind
While many Earth-based experiments have been run to try to detect dark matter, the mysterious substance remains elusive. Now physicists have proposed a new experiment that would try to find signals by sending atomic clocks to where dark matter should b… Continue reading Atomic clocks orbiting near the Sun could detect dark matter
Though designed to study the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has scored a first by collecting the first images of the surface of Venus in visible light using its Wide-Field Imager (WISPR) while flying by the planet’s night side in 2020 and 2021.Continue… Continue reading Parker Solar Probe captures first visible light images of Venus
After setting off back in 2018 on a history-making mission to study the Sun by getting up close and personal with its atmosphere, NASA’s Solar Parker Probe has entered this region for the first time. The craft’s passage through the Sun’s upper atmosphe… Continue reading NASA probe “touches the Sun” with historic entry into solar atmosphere
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has set a new pair of records after it survived its 10th close encounter with the Sun. On November 21, 2021 at 4:25 am EST (08:25 GMT), the robotic deep-space explorer came within 5.3 million miles (8.5 million km) of the Sun’… Continue reading Parker Solar Probe sets new distance and speed records on solar slingshot
Launched in 2018 on a mission to study the Sun from close proximity, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe continues to edge closer and closer to its target, setting one new record after another. The latest came during a close approach today, where the spacecraft … Continue reading Parker Solar Probe clocks 330,000 mph as the fastest object ever made
The Parker Solar Probe will fly closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history, so it better be able to handle the heat. Continue reading How to Prepare a Spacecraft to Fly Through the Sun’s Atmosphere