NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history on Tuesday by flying into the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona. This groundbreaking mission aims to provide scientists with valuable data about Earth's closest star. The spacecraft, travelling at incredible speeds, endured extreme temperatures to collect unprecedented close-up images and information about the sun's atmosphere, including coronal streamers.
NASA ’s Parker Solar Probe was expected to make history on Tuesday by flying into the sun’s outer atmosphere called the corona on a mission to help scientists learn more about Earth’s closest star.
Parker was on course to fly 3.8 million miles from the sun’s surface at 6:53 a.m. EST . With the spacecraft out of contact, it will be Friday before mission operators confirm its health following the close flyby. When the probe first passed into the solar atmosphere in 2021 it found new details about the boundaries of the sun’s atmosphere and collected close-up images of coronal streamers, cusp-like structures seen during solar eclipses.
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