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NASA's Parker Solar Probe is about to make its closest approach to the sun. The spacecraft will fly within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface. The spacecraft is collecting essential data that ...
The Parker Solar Probe (PSP; previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+) [6] is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 to make observations of the Sun's outer corona. It used repeated gravity assists from Venus to develop an eccentric orbit, approaching within 9.86 solar radii (6.9 million km or 4.3 million miles) [ 7 ] [ 8 ] from ...
IS☉IS hardware being prepared for its mission, EPI-Lo hardware shown in 2017. Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun or IS☉IS, is an instrument aboard the Parker Solar Probe, a space probe designed to study the Sun. IS☉IS is focused on measuring energetic particles from the Sun, including electrons, protons, and ions. [1]
Within two months of launching, the Parker Solar Probe in October 2018 moved within 26.55 million miles of the sun's surface, breaking the previous mark set by the Helios-2 spaecraft in 1976.
SWEAP consists of the Solar Probe Cup (SPC), a Faraday cup that faces the Sun and is designed to measure mostly protons and alphas with the occasional measurement of electrons in the space environment near the Sun: the Solar Probe Analyzers (SPAN-A and SPAN-B); [10] [11] and the SWEAP electronics module (SWEM).
Parker Solar Probe, launched 2018, still operational. Phoebus group, international scientists aiming at detecting solar g modes; SOHO 2333; Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), launched 2010, still operational. Solar Orbiter, launched 2020, still operational. STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory), launched 2006, still operational.
the NASA Solar Probe mission (now named "Parker Solar Probe") List of Solar System probes , which includes many solar probes Topics referred to by the same term
English: Parker Solar Probe has now “touched the Sun”, passing through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona for the first time in April 2021. The boundary that marks the edge of the corona is the Alfvén critical surface.