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Dozens of Observatories Collected Data During Parker Solar Probe’s 15th Close...
Click to play video NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 15th close approach to the Sun on March 17, coming within 5.3 million miles of the scorching solar surface. The geometry of Parker’s latest...
View ArticleScientists Shed Light on the Unusual Origin of a Familiar Meteor Shower
Editor’s note: This blog post was updated to include more information about the paper published in The Planetary Science Journal. Each winter, the Geminid meteors light up the sky as they race past...
View ArticleNASA’s Parker Solar Probe Completes 16th Close Approach to the Sun
https://sprcdn-assets.sprinklr.com/522/145c3772-81c5-4ee7-bcff-b23a285885e6-1091310750.mp4 Parker Solar Probe’s 16th orbit included a perihelion that brought the spacecraft within 5.3 million miles of...
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Course Correction Keeps Parker Solar Probe on Track for Venus Flyby
Artist’s concept of Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s Parker Solar Probe executed a short maneuver on Aug. 3, 2023, that kept the spacecraft on track to hit the aim...
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Durable Parker Solar Probe Going Strong After First Five Years
On Aug. 12, 2018 – five years ago this week – NASA’s Parker Solar Probe blasted off atop a powerful Delta IV rocket from what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The predawn launch into the...
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Venus Flyby Sends Parker Solar Probe Toward Record-Setting Flights Around the...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe zoomed past Venus on Aug. 21, using the planet’s gravity to aim toward a record-setting series of flights around the Sun that start next month. Standing, from left, Parker...
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Parker Observes Powerful Coronal Mass Ejection ‘Vacuum Up’ Interplanetary Dust
On Sept. 5, 2022, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe soared gracefully through one of the most powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ever recorded – not only an impressive feat of engineering, but a huge boon...
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For the Record: Parker Solar Probe Sets Distance, Speed Marks on 17th Swing...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 17th close approach to the Sun on Sept. 27, 2023, breaking its own distance record by skimming just 4.51 million miles (7.26 million kilometers) from the solar...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Completes 18th Close Approach to the Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 18th close approach to the Sun on Dec. 28, 2023, matching its own distance record by skimming just about 4.51 million miles (7.26 million kilometers) from the...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Completes 19th Close Approach to the Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 19th close approach to the Sun on March 30, matching its own distance record by coming about 4.51 million miles (7.26 million kilometers) from the solar surface....
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