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. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour […]
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Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics, Heliophysics Division, Parker Solar Probe (PSP), Science & Research, Science Mission Directorate, Solar Flares, Solar Wind, Space Weather, The Sun
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December 27, 2024
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