Texas Tech professor to leave mark on Moon through NASA. Here's how it's being done
"Bearing our banners far and wide" is getting a whole new meaning at Texas Tech University this week. In the spirit of those ...
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NASA probe sets record with daring Sun dive
NASA's Parker Solar Probe achieved a groundbreaking milestone. As the first Earth-originating vehicle to do so, it approached ...
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NASA confirms Parker Solar Probe survived solar close encounter
NASA has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is safe and fully operational after its Christmas Eve close encounter with the ...
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NASA payload aims to probe moon's depths to study heat flow
Every half-meter it descends, the drilling system will pause and extend a custom-built thermal probe into the lunar regolith. LISTER will measure two different aspects of heat flow: thermal ...
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Parker Solar Probe: First spacecraft to 'touch' the sun
the spacecraft's science instruments will be protected from these scorching temperatures and remain close to room temperature — about 85 degrees F (30 degrees C). The Parker Solar Probe is ...
This is how close NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by the sun
The Parker Solar Probe is expected to pass within an "unprecedented" 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, according to NASA. "It's about to be on its closest approach to the sun," Rayl ...
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A journey to hell in the name of science
These extreme numbers, and the thermal and technological challenges to keeping the spacecraft alive, explain why a Parker Solar Probe-type mission was more dream than reality for half a century.