Washington (AFP) Dec 24, 2024 - NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history Tuesday, flying closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft, with its heat shield exposed to scorching temperatures topping 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit (930 degrees Celsius).
当帕克太阳探测器(Parker Solar Probe)穿过太阳大气层时,人类第一次“接触”到了太阳。 2021年12月14日,NASA发布消息表示,帕克太阳探测器在今年4月穿过了太阳的上层大气——日冕,并在那里对粒子和磁场进行了采样,这是人类首次进入太阳大气层。 这个里程碑事件标志着帕克太阳探测器迈出了一大步,也是全人类太阳科...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Parker Solar Probe, the fastest spacecraft in history, blasted off atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket in the U.S. state of Florida on Sunday, on a mission to study the Sun at closer range than any other spacecraft. The probe has started its journey...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface.
During its mission lifetime of under seven years, the probe will complete 24 orbits of the Sun and fly within 3.7 million miles (6 million km) of the Sun's surface at closest approach.
In 2018, NASA plans to launch the Solar Probe Plus mission to the sun. Earth is about 93 million miles from the sun, and Solar Probe Plus is slated to get within 4 million miles of the blazing star. [What Will Happen to Earth When the Sun Dies?] ...
agency and humankind. it will send the first ever probe to the sun in order to learn more about the big ball of fire that is the center of the solar system. nasa gave the first glimpse of the rockets carrying the probe into space at an event held last week. the parker solar probe ...
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The probe - launched in 2018 to help scientists better understand the outer layer of the sun - will race past the sun at 435,000mph as it goes within the corona today.
Now, the spacecraft, the fastest spacecraft in history, has begun its second orbits on course to the second perihelion or closest approach to the Sun on April 4, according to NASA. During its mission lifetime of under seven years, the probe will complete 24 orbits of the Sun and fly wi...