NASA's Parker Solar Probe Just 'Touched' Our Sun, in a World-First
A depiction of NASA's probe smashing through the sun's corona. Ad astra - literally. For the first time, a spacecraft has "touched the Sun," according to a press release from NASA. More than three years after its launch, the agency's Parker Solar Probe flew through our star's upper atmosphere, taking measurements of the particles and magnetic fields it encountered.
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