Nasa Solar Probe

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  Parker Solar Probe to Break Records with Historic Sun Flyby on December 24

  NASA's Parker Solar Probe is set for a record-breaking approach to the sun on December 24, travelling at 430,000 mph and reaching within 3.8 million miles of the surface. The spacecraft, equipped with advanced heat shields, will navigate solar plasma plumes and potentially an active eruption during this phase of heightened solar activity. This flyb...

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  Voyager 2's Historic Flyby of Uranus Exposes Rare Magnetic Distortion

  A new analysis of Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus in 1986 reveals a unique magnetic anomaly caused by a rare solar wind event. Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech found that the solar wind’s impact on Uranus’s magnetosphere was a unique occurrence, influencing measurements of the planet’s magnetic field. The study also ...

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  NASA’s Juno Probe Captures Stunning Views of Jupiter’s Storms and Moon Amalthea

  NASA’s Juno probe captured vibrant, high-contrast images of Jupiter’s stormy atmosphere and an up-close view of its moon, Amalthea, during the spacecraft’s 66th flyby on October 23. The images were processed by citizen scientists, enhancing the colours to showcase Jupiter’s unique cloud formations and highlighting details of Amalthea agains...

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  NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes Final Venus Flyby Before Historic Sun Encounter

  NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, will make its final Venus flyby on Nov. 6. This manoeuvre will bring the spacecraft into a new orbit, allowing it to approach within 3.8 million miles of the sun, closer than any human-made object has been. While the probe’s primary mission is to study the sun, its instruments have captured rare data...

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  NASA's Parker Solar Probe To Have Final Venus Flyby Today Ahead Of Historic Sun Encounter

  The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 on the mission to "touch" the Sun. It is just about the size of a small car.

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  Parker Solar Probe Prepares for Closest Approach to Sun After Last Venus Flyby

  NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist on 6 November, altering its path to make an unprecedented 3.86-million-mile approach to the sun on 24 December. The manoeuvre will allow Parker to pass closer than any human-made object to the sun, where it will study solar activity. Earlier flybys also revealed surprising det...

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  NASA's Parker Solar Probe Unveils New Insights into Solar Heating Mystery

  NASA's Parker Solar Probe has delivered groundbreaking insights into one of the sun's most perplexing mysteries: why its outer atmosphere, or corona, is significantly hotter than its surface. This phenomenon, known as the "coronal heating mystery," has puzzled scientists for decades. The Parker Solar Probe, which is the fastest human-made object, h...

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  NASA's Historic Asteroid Space Probe Set To Return To Earth After 7 Years

  NASA's first mission to retrieve an asteroid sample and return it to US is expected to reach a perilous finale on Sunday with a descent into the Utah desert. Scientists hope the material will help understand the formation of solar system.

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  NASA's Spacecraft Flies Through Most Powerful Solar Explosion Ever Recorded

  NASA's Parker Solar Probe captures unprecedented footage of a massive solar eruption on a close approach to the Sun.

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  NASA's Wrong Command Cuts Contact With Voyager 2 Probe 12 Billion Miles Away

  Voyager 2 is the successor to Voyager 1 and second spacecraft to enter interstellar space.

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  NASA's Lucy Mission Snaps Stunning Views Of Earth And Moon On Its Way To Jupiter

  NASA's Lucy probe, a mission to a group of asteroids near Jupiter, flew past Earth on October 16 and took some stunning photos of our planet and the moon before retreating to deep space.

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  Asteroid Polymele May Have Its Own Natural Satellite, Say Astronomers on NASA's Lucy Mission

  On its way to the space rocks Trojans, NASA's Lucy probe observed its smallest asteroid target named Polymele, which was expected to pass in front of a star. As the asteroid passed, it blocked the star briefly allowing astronomers to observe the star blink along with another object. Located some 200km from Polymele, astronomers think that is likely...

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  Asteroid Psyche Maps Hint at a World of Metal and Mystery Ahead of NASA's August Mission

  NASA plans to deploy its Psyche probe to study the asteroid belt in August, an area between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where remains of the early solar system circle the Sun. The probe will orbit and analyse Psyche's surface for two years to find clues about how early planetary bodies originated. Months ahead of the upcoming mission, a grou...

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  NASA Voyager 1's Probe Is the Closest Humanity Can Get to Immortality, Claims Expert

  James Edward Huchingson, Professor emeritus and lecturer of Religion and Science at Florida International University, has published a piece to throw light on what the Voyager Probes could teach about humanity and legacy. The Golden Records have messages packed in a bottle, which include spoken greetings in 55 languages, sounds, and images from natu...

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  NASA Satellite Captures Unique View of Total Lunar Eclipse That Occurred on May 15

  A NASA satellite, named Lucy which was launched in October 2021, managed to capture a unique perspective on the total lunar eclipse, which occurred on May 15-16. The satellite was launched for a 12-year journey to probe eight different asteroids, including one asteroid from the main asteroid belt in the solar system.