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  2. NASA's Parker Solar Probe whizzes within 3.8 million miles of ...

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    Two days after the probe zipped within 3.8 million miles of the sun, it managed to transmit a beacon back to Earth indicating that it remains in good health and is operating as expected, NASA said.

  3. Nasa makes history with closest-ever approach to Sun - AOL

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    A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. Scientists received a signal from the Parker Solar Probe just before midnight EST on Thursday (05:00 GMT on ...

  4. Nasa spacecraft survives the closest-ever approach to the Sun ...

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    A Nasa spacecraft is in “good health” after going closer to the Sun than anything ever has, the space agency has said. The Parker Solar Probe appears to have successfully completed a journey ...

  5. NASA spacecraft 'safe' after closest-ever approach to Sun - AOL

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    The spacecraft passed 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) from the solar surface on Dec. 24, flying into the sun's outer atmosphere called the corona, on a mission to help scientists learn more ...

  6. Parker Solar Probe - Wikipedia

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    The PSP and ESA-NASA Solar Orbiter (SolO) missions cooperated to trace solar wind and transients from their sources on the Sun to the inner interplanetary space. [ 92 ] In 2022, PSP and SolO planners collaborated to study why the Sun's atmosphere is "150 times hotter" than its surface.

  7. Solar Dynamics Observatory - Wikipedia

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    The detailed images recorded by SDO in 2011–2012 have helped scientists uncover new secrets about the Sun. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a NASA mission which has been observing the Sun since 2010. [4] Launched on 11 February 2010, the observatory is part of the Living With a Star (LWS) program. [5]

  8. Flux transfer event - Wikipedia

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    According to NASA, Earth's magnetosphere and the Sun's magnetic field are constantly pressed against one another on the dayside of Earth. Approximately every eight minutes, these fields briefly merge, forming a temporary "portal" between the Earth and the Sun through which high-energy particles such as solar wind can flow. The portal takes the ...

  9. Nasa’s Parker probe phones home after ‘touching Sun’ in ...

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    Nasa has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe is “operating normally” after making the closest-ever approach to the Sun by a spacecraft.. The pioneering probe made its closest approach to the ...