So effective is the heat shield that the probe's internal instruments remain near room temperature—around 85F (29C)—as it explores the sun's outer atmosphere, called the corona. Parker will ...

On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface. Just before midnight Thursday ...

A NASA probe ventured closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history on Christmas Eve — and it whirled by at astounding speeds that also made it the fastest thing ever made by humans.

The probe sent a signal to Earth indicating that it had survived the closest solar encounter ever attempted by a spacecraft. By Katrina Miller On Dec. 24, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe swooped ...

Parker Solar Probe is operating normally after passing just 6.1 million kilometres above the Sun’s surface, NASA says. A 2018 artist's concept shows the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft flying into ...

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The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during ... Meanwhile, the spacecraft’s interior is at a comfortable room temperature so the electronics systems and science instruments ...

The fastest object ever built by humans will fly within a whisker of the sun today. The Parker Solar Probe will race past at 435,000mph as it studies the sun's surface and atmosphere. That's so ...

NASA sent its Parker Solar Probe just 3.8 million miles from the surface of the Sun — and it survived. The probe transmitted a signal back to Earth on the night of December 26th, “indicating ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has once again made history, completing its closest-ever approach to the sun on December 24, 2024. Hurtling through the solar corona at an astonishing 430,000 miles per ...

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But the craft’s payload of instruments sitting comfortably at room temperature. The Parker probe’s payload contains multiple suites of instruments. One snaps images, others measure magnetic ...