In 2018, NASA launched a mission to do something that scientists have never done before. The Parker Solar Probe mission is truly the first of its kind, venturing closer to our star than any spacecraft has ever dared, and it’s already broken a number of records.
Now, the spacecraft is continuing its incredible journey by completing its second close approach to the Sun, bringing it to the record-setting distance it achieved during its first pass. As NASA explains in a new blog post, scientists are eager to examine the scientific data the probe is gathering during time closest to the Sun, and thus far everything appears to be going as planned.
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NASA’s mission to ‘Touch the Sun’ just hit another major milestone originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 18:04:37 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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