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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe continues to orbit the sun and make records, and is planning another record-setting approach this week. On December 24 at 6:53AM ET, the spacecraft’s path will pass just 3.8 million miles from the sun’s surface, according to the space agency. It will be the closest – or any other probe – ever to the sun. The event will mark the end of Parker Solar Probe’s 22nd orbit around our star, and the first of three planned final flybys. his job. The project, which was launched in 2018, is expected to complete 24 trips.
“No man-made object has ever passed this close to a star, so Parker will be returning real data from an uncharted region,” Nick Pinkine, Parker Solar Probe project manager at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, said in a statement. NASA blog. “We’re excited to hear from the spacecraft as it orbits the Sun.”
The Parker Solar Probe will travel about 430,000 miles per hour during its closest approach. It will force the team to confirm its health on December 27, when it will be away from the sun to resume communication.
