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NASA mission makes history amid landmark probe's closest-ever approach to the sun
The American space agency said the mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, ...
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Parker Solar Probe makes history with closest pass to the sun
NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its closest approach to the sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...
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This Christmas Eve, humans will try to embrace a star
"In 1969, we landed humans on the moon; on Christmas Eve in 2024, we are going to embrace a star," Nour Raouafi, project ...
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What time is the NASA Parker Solar Probe's closest sun flyby ever on Christmas Eve?
Set your Parker Solar Probe sun flyby clocks for Dec. 24 at 6:53 a.m. EST (1153 GMT), Space Fans. A NASA spacecraft is about to give astronomers an epic early Christmas present with the closest ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to Sun
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.