NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its closest approach to the sun

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Illustration of a astir cylindrical spacecraft adjacent nan sun. The sun is emitting a ample coronal loop.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (illustrated here) is nan closest artificial entity to nan sun.

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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.

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