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12 de ago. de 2018 · Parker Solar Probe is designed to swoop within about 4 million miles (6.5 million kilometers) of the Sun's surface to trace the flow of energy, to study the heating of the solar corona, and to explore what accelerates the solar wind.
14 de dic. de 2021 · For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science.
8 de ago. de 2018 · Why is it so difficult? The answer lies in the same fact that keeps Earth from plunging into the Sun: Our planet is traveling very fast — about 67,000 miles per hour — almost entirely sideways relative to the Sun. The only way to get to the Sun is to cancel that sideways motion.
16 de jul. de 2020 · Solar Orbiter is an international collaboration between the European Space Agency, or ESA, and NASA, to study our closest star, the Sun. Launched on Feb. 9, 2020 (EST), the spacecraft completed its first close pass of the Sun in mid-June.
NASA and other international space agencies monitor the Sun 24/7 with a fleet of solar observatories, studying everything from the Sun’s atmosphere to its surface. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is studying our star from closer than any previous spacecraft.
14 de dic. de 2021 · 14 December 2021. NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever. The Parker Solar Probe has passed through a boundary and into the Sun’s atmosphere, gathering data that will help...
15 de dic. de 2021 · Three years after its launch, the Parker Solar Probe has finally "touched" the sun. In April, the probe became the first known spacecraft to soar into our nearest star's upper atmosphere –...
