Parker Solar Probe - Wikipedia
In March 2024, both space probes were at their closest approaches to the Sun, PSP at 7.3 million km, and SolO at 45 million km. SolO observed the Sun, while PSP sampled the plasma of the solar wind, allowing scientists to compare data from both probes.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reports Successful Closest Approach …
Dec 27, 2024 · Following its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has transmitted a beacon tone back to Earth indicating it’s in good health and operating normally.
NASA confirms Parker Solar Probe survived solar close encounter
Jan 3, 2025 · NASA has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is safe and fully operational after its Christmas Eve close encounter with the Sun. On December 24, 2024, the robotic probe came within a record...
Parker Solar Probe's Close Star Pass Set to Unveil Forces
Jan 30, 2024 · On December 24, 2024, NASA’s sun chariot will make its closest approach yet—a staggering 3.83 million miles from the Sun’s surface, where it’ll need to withstand intense radiation and...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe safe after historic closest-ever …
Dec 28, 2024 · Parker got more than seven times closer to the sun than previous spacecraft, traveling at a maximum speed of about 430,000 mph.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe phones home after surviving historic …
Dec 27, 2024 · Two days after a historic Christmas Eve sun flyby during which it passed closer to the star than any spacecraft in history — taking the car-sized spacecraft nearly a tenth as close to the sun than...
History-making probe achieves closest-ever approach to the sun
Dec 23, 2024 · The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface during humanity’s closest...
Parker Solar Probe to make closest approach yet to the sun
Dec 22, 2024 · NASA's Parker Solar Probe will come withing 6.1 million kilometers of the sun, closer than any other spacecraft. Credit: ASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben. WASHINGTON — A NASA spacecraft is...
NASA Parker Solar Probe to make Sun mission history: Closest
Dec 23, 2024 · The probe aims to again "touch" the Sun when it flies up to about 430,000 mph at its closest approach "just 3.8 million miles" from the surface of the star at 6:53am on Tuesday ET, per NASA.
Parker Solar Probe survived its close approach to the sun
Dec 28, 2024 · The probe’s current orbit takes it closest to the sun about every three months. It’ll swing back around for two more close flybys in 2025, on March 22 and June 19.