Probe ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time
Jan 20, 2022
2 minutes
WORDS MINDY WEISBERGER
NASA probe has entered the Sun’s atmosphere and ‘touched’ the blazing corona in a first for solar science. The Parker Solar Probe, which launched in 2018, conducted seven flybys of the Sun before dipping into the corona during its eighth flyby on 28 April 2021. It made three
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