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Nasa probe successfully completes closest-ever approach to sun | Parker solar spacecraft got the closest any human-made object has ever come to the star
Parker solar spacecraft got the closest any human-made object has ever come to the star
Santa and his reindeer were not the only bodies making a celestial journey on 24 December: Nasa has revealed that its Parker solar probe successfully completed its closest-ever approach to the sun and remains in good health. Launched in 2018, the Parker solar probe has spent the past few years completing 21 orbits around the sun, with flybys of Venus gradually shifting its path closer to our star. However, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland in the US received a signal from the probe just before midnight EST on Boxing Day indicating that it was in good health and operating normally.
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