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INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM SINCE 1921 SIGN INThe spacecraft will make 2 much adjacent passes successful 2025
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed nan sun connected Christmas Eve and lived to show nan tale.
The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest star flyby yet astatine 6:53 a.m. EST connected December 24. It came wrong 6.1 cardinal kilometers of nan aboveground of nan sun, beating its ain 2023 record of 7.26 cardinal kilometers.
At nan clip of closest approach, nan spacecraft was besides nan fastest entity ever made by humans.