The Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, successfully completed a historic flyby of the Sun on Christmas Eve, reaching closer to the star than any spacecraft before. After a few days of radio silence, the probe confirmed its survival and operational status, sending a signal back to Earth.
The actual data obtained by the Parker Solar Probe should be arriving on New Year’s Day, if all goes well., I reported on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration groundbreaking spacecraft, the Parker Solar Probe , launched in 2018 to study the Sun ’s outer corona.
Two days after a historic Christmas Eve sun flyby that flew closer to the star than any spacecraft in history — taking the car-sized spacecraft nearly a tenth as close to the sun than Mercury — the Parker Solar Probe phoned home for the first time since its solar encounter. The space probe sent a simple yet highly-anticipated beacon tone to Earth just before midnight late Thursday .
“This close-up study of the Sun allows Parker Solar Probe to take measurements that help scientists better understand how material in this region gets heated to millions of degrees, trace the origin of the solar wind , and discover how energetic particles are accelerated to near light speed,” the agency said.
Parker’s data will also help scientists understand how the sun’s outer atmosphere, known as the corona, can be hundreds of times hotter than the solar surface below it.
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