Parker Solar Probe

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  Study Explores Sun’s Magnetic Field Changes and Solar Wind Acceleration

  A study published in The Astrophysical Journal has shed light on how the Sun’s magnetic field influences solar wind acceleration. Using data from the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter, researchers observed that sharp magnetic switchbacks smooth out into gentler waves as they travel further from the Sun. This relaxation process transfers magnet...

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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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  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 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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  ISRO Says Mangalyaan Threw Similar Results About Sun's Corona as NASA's Parker Probe

  The Sun is a mysterious place. Its atmosphere gets much hotter the farther one goes from the Sun's blazing surface. In fact, the outermost part of the Sun (corona) burns at a temperature rising to one million degrees Celsius, while just 1,500 kilometres below, the surface simmers at 5,500 degrees Celsius.

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  NASA's Parker Solar Probe Completes 11th Close Flyby of Sun, Gets Within 8.5-Million Kilometre Range

  NASA's Parker Solar Probe has again completed a close flyby of the Sun in a bid to understand how our neighbouring star works. It was Parker's 11th close approach to the Sun and it came within 5.3 million miles (8.5 million kilometres) of the nearly perfect ball of hot plasma.

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  First-Ever Images of Venus in Visible Light Shows Continental Regions, Plains, Plateaus, and Oxygen

  NASA's Parker Solar probe has captured the first-ever images of Venus in visible light.

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  NASA Spacecraft 'Touches The Sun' For The First-Time Ever

  The Parker Solar Probe, launched by NASA, became the first spacecraft to fly through the outer atmosphere of the sun.

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  NASA's Parker Probe Briefly Enters Sun's Corona in Historic Pass Through Solar Atmosphere

  Parker Solar Probe, one of the most ambitious missions launched by NASA, has become the first spacecraft ever to pass through the Sun's atmosphere, venturing briefly into a region known as the corona.

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  NASA Spacecraft Circling the Sun Stumbles Upon a Trail of Shooting Stars

  Scientists have struggled for years to photograph Phaethon's debris trail - until a NASA spacecraft serendipitously stumbled upon it.

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  NASA's Parker Solar Probe Reveals "New And Surprising" Solar Mystery

  NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which has flown closer to the Sun than any spacecraft ever, has beamed back the first observations from its close encounters with the Sun, revealing a 'spectacular trove' of data about the solar wind and space weather, reported the US space agency.

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  NASA's Parker Solar Probe Completes 2nd Closest Encounter With Sun

  Parker Solar Probe was travelling at 343,112 kilometres per hour during this perihelion.