NASA's Parker Solar Probe phones home after surviving historic …
23 小时之前 · The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun" on Christmas Eve. NASA's Parker Solar Probe is alive! Two days after an historic ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe "safe" after historic closest-ever …
23 小时之前 · A NASA spacecraft made history and is "safe" after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a ...
List of Solar System probes - Wikipedia
It includes planetary probes, solar probes, and probes to asteroids and comets, but excludes lunar missions, which are listed separately at List of lunar probes and List of Apollo missions. Flybys (such as gravity assists) that were incidental to the main purpose of the mission are also included.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to Sun
1 天前 · The spacecraft’s record close distance of 3.8 million miles may sound far, but on cosmic scales it’s incredibly close. If the solar system was scaled down with the distance between the Sun and Earth the length of a football field, Parker Solar Probe would be just four yards from the end zone — close enough to pass within the tenuous outer ...
NASA spacecraft makes history with closest-encounter with the …
2 天之前 · On Christmas Eve, the car-sized spacecraft came within 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface — marking humanity's closest approach ever. To put it in perspective, NASA's probe was about 10 ...
Solving Mysteries of the Sun with the Parker Solar Probe
2 天之前 · Concept image of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft leaving Earth on its journey to the Sun. A Complex Solar Wind. Near Earth, the solar wind is a relatively constant flow of plasma, with a few twists and turns. The solar wind is made up of charged particles, such as electrons, which means it carries along with it electric and magnetic fields.
Parker Solar Probe - Wikipedia
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 outer corona of the Sun. 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 ...
The Fastest Spacecraft Ever Heads for Its Close-Up With the Sun
4 天之前 · The spacecraft will be out of contact until Dec. 27, when Parker is scheduled to send a message back to Earth confirming its health. Assuming all goes well, the probe will transmit observations ...
Parker Solar Probe - NASA Science
2018年8月12日 · NASA's Parker Solar Probe will revolutionize our understanding of the Sun. The spacecraft is gradually orbiting closer to the Sun’s surface than any before it – well within the orbit of Mercury.
List of active Solar System probes - Wikipedia
This is a list of active space probes which have escaped Earth orbit. It includes lunar space probes, but does not include space probes orbiting at the Sun–Earth Lagrangian points (for these, see List of objects at Lagrangian points).