NASA’s daring Parker Solar Probe plunged deeper into the sun’s atmosphere than any human-made object before. While performing ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail.
NASA said in a news release. It's a historic milestone that NASA has been building toward ever since the Parker Solar Probe embarked in 2018 on a mission to study the sun's outer atmosphere.
Scientists anticipate the information Parker will transmit on New Year's Day, providing important perspectives on the probe's functioning and solar studies. Since its launch in 2018, the Parker ...
The mission was greenlit and eventually named after Eugene Parker, the solar physicist who predicted the existence of the solar wind in the 1950s and lived to see the launch of his namesake probe ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will perform 24 orbits around the Sun with the next close solar passes occurring on 22 March and 19 ...
The NASA mission broke its own record as it seeks to teach us more about our Sun, as well as reveal other secrets of the ...
Eugene Parker came to the launch in 2018. Since then, the Parker Solar Probe has completed dozens of ever-tightening orbits about the sun, steadily clearing the fog of solar ignorance. It has ...
Artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft ... closer with every approach. To date, it has completed 21 solar slingshots. The probe has already come closer to the sun than any other ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close ... the space agency said in a news release. Two days after the probe zipped within 3.8 million miles of the sun, it managed to transmit a ...
Parker Solar Probe, AFP Photo/NASA/Johns Hopkins APL Speed: up to about 692,000 km/h on its final orbits Length: 3 m Weight: 685 kg at launch for solar probe to take The Barron's news department ...
He attended the Parker Solar Probe’s launch in 2018, and died in 2022 at age 94. Counterintuitively, the laws of gravity make it hard to fly close to the sun. Objects orbiting the sun at a ...