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NASA Just Flew Through the Sun’s Atmosphere – And What It Saw Is Jaw-Dropping
By flying closer to the Sun than ever, Parker Solar Probe reveals the chaotic birthplace of solar wind and space storms, ...
What happens near the Sun? NASA’s Parker probe sends closest-ever photos of the Sun, unveils space weather origins
NASA has released unprecedented images of the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe captured these during a December 2024 flyby. It flew closer than any spacecraft before. The images reveal solar activity like ...
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Finds Evidence Of "Barrier" In The Sun's 2 Million Kelvin Atmosphere
A study looking at data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found evidence for a "helicity barrier" in the atmosphere of the ...
Closest-ever images of the Sun captured by Nasa probe
NASA has released the closest-ever images of the Sun, captured just 3.8 million miles from its surface. Since its launch in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe has gradually circled closer to the sun, flying ...
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Parker Solar Probe completes record-setting approach toward sun: NASA
Within two months of launching, the Parker Solar Probe in October 2018 moved within 26.55 million miles of the sun's surface, breaking the previous mark set by the Helios-2 spaecraft in 1976.
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This is how close NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by the sun
The Parker Solar Probe will soon be the closest any human-made object has ever gotten to the sun. The probe, engineered to study the corona -- the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere, launched in ...
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Instrument on NASA's Parker Solar Probe switches off unexpectedly
The sun-studying spacecraft switched off its Energetic Particle Instrument-Hi (EPI-Hi) on Feb. 12, while a software patch was being uploaded to it, NASA officials explained in a brief Parker Solar ...
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Durable Parker Solar Probe going strong after first five years - Phys.org
On Aug. 12, 2018—five years ago this week—NASA's Parker Solar Probe blasted off atop a powerful Delta IV rocket from what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The predawn launch into the ...
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Parker Solar Probe aims to teach us more about the sun : NPR
NASA's Parker Solar Space Probe got closer to the sun than any other human-made object. NPR talks to the scientist behind the project, Nour Rawafi.
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Parker Solar Probe: First spacecraft to "touch" the sun | Space
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is on a mission to study the sun closer than ever before. Learn more about the fastest spacecraft to date in our solar probe guide.
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This is how close NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by the sun
In this Aug. 12, 2018, file photo, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Delta IV Heavy rocket will take NASA's Parker Solar ...
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Parker Solar Probe to make record-setting approach to sun, NASA says
Within two months of launching, the Parker Solar Probe in October 2018 moved within 26.55 million miles of the sun's surface, breaking the previous mark set by the Helios-2 spaecraft in 1976.