NASA’s Parker Space Probe Succeeds in Making Closest-Ever Approach To The Sun | UAP

NASA officials have received healthy signals from the Parker Space Probe, following the craft’s record breaking approach to the Sun.

The marking signal was received by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, shortly before midnight on December 26.

NASA lost contact during the probe’s closest approach to the Sun, which occurred on December 24. 

Parker Space Probe Approaches 

During its solar fly-by, Parker came more than seven times closer to the sun than any past spacecraft, moving at an astounding 430,000 miles per hour, placing it within just 3.8 million miles of the solar surface.

Along with its close approach bringing Parker nearer to the Sun than any spacecraft, it is also officialy the fastest spacecraft ever built, equipped with a heat shield that makes it capable of taking on temperatures of close to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,371 degrees Celsius).

Coming this close to the Sun, the probe can take measurements, answering various questions about our home star. These include how the region’s material heats to millions of degrees, where the solar wind originates, and how energetic particles accelerate to near-light speed. Earlier close passes solved mysteries such as discerning the origins of structures in the solar wind and mapping the outer boundary of the Sun’s atmosphere. 

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