We’re rapidly approaching the one-year anniversary of the launch of NASA’s much-hyped mission to “Touch the Sun” with its Parker Solar Probe. The spacecraft is breaking records left and right, but NASA didn’t fire the probe at our nearest star just to impress us. The success of the mission will ultimately depend on the data it sends back.
The nature of sending data through space — and the fact that the Parker Solar Probe has to take nice long trips around the Sun — means that data can’t be streamed back as it’s collected. Instead, the probe has to send back its observations in chunks, and it just wrapped up its first major data dump.
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NASA just received a major data dump from its mission to ‘Touch the Sun’ originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 00:05:53 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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