NASA Says Spacecraft Made Closest-Ever Pass to Sun — VOA Learning English
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NASA says a spacecraft that has been examining the sun’s outermost atmosphere recently got closer to our Earth’s star than any past explorer has.
The American space agency announced its Parker Solar Probe passed within 6.1 million kilometers of the sun’s outer corona on December 24. Mission leaders established communication with the spacecraft after the operation and said the orbiter was safe.
NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe in August 2018. Its mission is to study the sun’s powerful corona and solar wind. Solar wind is created by a continuous flow of charged particles, called plasma, into space from the corona.
In 2021, NASA announced the orbiter had passed into the solar atmosphere for…
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