Parker solar probe
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ESA’s Solar Orbiter launched successfully
Solar Orbiter will address big questions in Solar System science to help us understand how our star creates and controls the giant bubble of plasma that surrounds the whole Solar System and influences the planets within it. It is an ESA mission with strong NASA participation.
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Parker Solar Probe completes fourth closest approach of the Sun
The probe’s heat shield reached new record temperatures as well.
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Shedding new light on the Sun
This first data from Parker reveals our star, the Sun, in new and surprising ways.
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First science data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is out
Parker Solar Probe (PSP) data is available in the archive and selected data sets are in CDAWeb.
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Parker Solar Probe helps solve sun’s super-heating mystery
For more than a half-century, since the problem of coronal heating was discovered in the 1940s, astronomers have tried to establish why the Sun's...
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Parker Solar Probe completes second close approach to the Sun
Launched on August 12, 2018, the probe has reached its perihelion, the second point on its orbit furthest from the Sun and is now...
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Parker Solar Probe Nails First Orbit Of The Sun, Preps For Second Pass
NASA'S Parker Solar Probe has made its first orbit of our star, Sun and getting ready for the second.
Launched on August 12, 2018, the...
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Parker Solar Probe snaps its first image from inside Sun’s atmosphere
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is on the mission to enlight the physics of our star, the Sun.
From Oct. 31 to Nov. 11, 2018, Parker Solar...
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Parker Solar Probe reports good status after close solar approach
Parker Solar Probe recently made a history by being the closest ever approach to the Sun by a human-made object. Parker Solar Probe is alive...
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Parker Solar Probe breaks record, becomes closest spacecraft to Sun
On 29 October 2018, at 1:04 pm EDT (17:04 UTC), Parker Solar Probe just made a history by making the closest ever approach to...