NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to Sun
Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Preps for Record-Breaking Christmas Eve Flyby
The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close encounter with sun
The probe accelerated to 430,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft has ever flown, traveling to within 3.8 million miles of the star’s surface.
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'Preserve this place': Borden Flats Lighthouse owner seeking a new keeper with 'passion'
He’s intimately familiar with how the lighthouse’s beacon works — once a lamp flame lit by whale oil in 1881, then kerosene, now a solar-powered electric light. Although that part of the ...