GenPI.co – NASA made history after its spacecraft managed to touch the sun.
Reported from the science.nasa.gov page, the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft belongs to NASA fly through the Sun’s upper atmosphere, the corona, and sample the particles and magnetic field there.
It is known, this historic achievement actually occurred in April 2021. However, NASA only announced this achievement on December 14, 2021.
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This achievement also makes Parker Solar Probe a spacecraft the first to fly closest to the sun.
“We have finally arrived. Humanity has touched the Sun,” said Nicola Fox, director of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, quoted from the Nature page, Friday (17/12).
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The Parker Solar Probe traverses the Sun’s atmosphere at 09:33 Universal Time on April 28, 2021.
Of course, it took a long time for NASA to carry out this mission.
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Scientists took months to download and analyze the data it collected.
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