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NASA’s historic journey to the Sun: The first signal was received!

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December 27, 2024

NASA announced that the Parker Solar Probe, which passed closest to the Sun, has successfully completed this historic flight. The vehicle, which approached 6.1 million kilometers to the Sun’s surface on December 24, completed its mission safely by enduring a temperature of 980 degrees Celsius and a speed of 690 thousand km / h. NASA shared its excitement by saying, “We received a signal from Parker, the vehicle is safe and operating normally.” Parker’s mission is to enlighten the world of science by examining the Sun’s corona layer. Two more record flights await the spacecraft in 2025.

NASA made history with its closest approach to the Sun to date.
The US space agency confirmed that the Sun survived the close encounter and is “functioning normally.”
NASA wrote in a post: “Parker Solar Probe sent a message home! On December 24, it passed within just 6.1 million km of the Sun’s surface, the closest Sun flyby in history, and we received the signal tone confirming that Parker Solar Probe is safe.” During the flyby, Parker moved at speeds of 690,000 km/h while enduring temperatures of up to 980 degrees Celsius.
Despite these extreme conditions, the probe’s heat shield effectively protected its instruments.
NASA said the mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland received the signal the day after Christmas.
The spacecraft’s next detailed data transmission is scheduled for January 1.
“After its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe sent a signal tone indicating that it was OK and operating normally,” NASA said. The close approach on Christmas Eve was the first of three record-breaking flybys. The other two are expected to occur on March 22, 2025, and June 19, 2025, and the probe is expected to pass at a similarly close range to the Sun.
“No human-made object has ever passed this close to a star, so Parker will really bring back data from uncharted territory,” said Nick Pinkine, mission operations manager for the Parker Solar Probe from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). Beyond breaking records, scientists hope to use the mission to measure how material is heated to millions of degrees, find where the solar wind comes from and learn how energetic particles reach speeds close to the speed of light.
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