Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore. Sure, the spacecraft got some attention when it launched. It is, after all, the fastest moving object that humans have ever built. At its maximum speed, goosed by the gravitational pull of the Sun, the probe reaches a velocity of 430,000 miles per hour, or more than one-sixth of 1 percent the speed of light.
We’re About To Fly A Spacecraft Into The Sun For The First Time
Eric Berger, Ars Technica
Thu, 12/19/2024 - 4:02pm
BING NEWS:
- NASA solar probe due for historic Christmas Eve flyby
From April’s total solar eclipse to recent appearances of the northern lights. Now, the Sun is back in the news as a NASA spacecraft prepares to make a historic approach next week. The Parker Solar ...
12/19/2024 - 9:13 am | View Link - We’re about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time
Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore.
12/19/2024 - 5:02 am | View Link - When solar probes align: Data confirms how sun's magnetic field accelerates solar wind
When two probes orbiting the sun aligned with one another, researchers harnessed the opportunity to track the sun's magnetic field as it traveled into the solar system. They found that the sharply ...
12/19/2024 - 4:13 am | View Link - This is how close NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by the sun
In October 2018, just months after its launch, it broke the record of being the closest a human-made object has ever gotten to the sun, at 26.55 million miles -- a record previously set in 1976 by the ...
12/18/2024 - 10:09 pm | View Link - Watch: NASA Experts Discuss Mission to 'Touch the Sun'
Parker Solar Probe is "venturing into a region of space that we never visited before," astrophysicist Nour Rawafi said.
12/18/2024 - 12:59 am | View Link - More
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