NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history on Christmas Eve by completing its closest-ever approach to the Sun, coming within 3.8 ...
NASA's Parker ... solar wind, measuring the properties of electrons, protons and helium ions. The Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe Plus (WISPR) is a telescope that makes three-dimensional images ...
NASA scientists launched the Parker Solar Probe on what they call “a mission to touch the sun.” Since then, the spacecraft ...
The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar ... whether Parker's data recorders are full." The probe should transmit the bulk of the images and science ...
The Parker Solar Probe is attempting ... snapped captivating pictures and yielded insights about Venus. The first WISPR images of Venus taken in July 2020 during the probe’s third flyby.Credit ...
Editor's Note: This story was originally published Dec. 24 and updated Friday, Dec. 27 at 10:45 a.m. EST to confirm that the Parker Solar Probe had ... NASA announced. Images gathered during ...
NASA's Parker Solar ... how the spacecraft fared in the early hours of Dec. 27 after a beacon signal confirms both the flyby's success and the overall state of the spacecraft. Images gathered ...
No human-made object has ever passed this close to a star, so Parker will truly be returning data from uncharted territory,” ...
Travelling at speeds of up to 430,000 mph and withstanding temperatures of up to 982°C, the Parker Solar Probe ... captured close-up images of coronal streamers. One of the probe's instruments ...
Just before 7 a.m. on Dec. 24, the Parker Solar Probe passed within just 3.8 million ... It has also spotted comets, taken pictures and added to our knowledge of nearby Venus.
The first batch of scientific data, covering images and observations of the Sun's corona, should be available before the end of January. Parker Solar Probe’s journey to uncover the Sun’s ...