Passes at a speed of 692,000 km/h and withstands a high temperature of 980 degrees
Safe and functioning properly even after passing
Helps understand solar wind origins and how high-energy particles accelerate to near-lightspeed
The BBC reported that NASA’s solar probe ‘Parker Solar Probe’ passed just 6.1 million kilometers from the sun’s surface, setting a new record for the closest approach to the sun by a spacecraft.
‘Parker Solar Probe’ lost communication for several days while flying near the hot sun, but succeeded in sending a signal to NASA just before midnight on the 27th (2 PM, Korean time). NASA said the probe was still safe and operating normally after passing near the sun.
According to the NASA website, the ‘Parker Solar Probe’ moved at a maximum speed of 692,000 km per hour and withstood temperatures of up to 980 degrees.
NASA also said Parker Solar Probe’s close-up studies of the Sun will “better understand how material in the solar region heats up to millions of degrees, trace the origins of the solar wind, and how high-energy particles accelerate to speeds approaching the speed of light.” “We were able to perform measurements that helped us discover this.”
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