New York (AP) – a NASA spacecraft It will make another brush with the sun, and the second of three striped meetings through the buzzing solar atmosphere.
the Parker Solar Probe I achieved the first pass from the record, 3.8 million miles (6 million km) from The incendiary sun In December, flying closer to any object is previously sent.
The plans called for trying this trip again on Saturday. Since Flyby occurs outside the scope of communications, the Mission from Parker will not hear until Tuesday noon.
Parker is The fastest spacecraft It was built by humans, and it is assigned again to strike 430,000 miles per hour (690,000 km per hour) in the nearest approach.
It was launched in 2018 To take a closer look at the sun, Parker has been flew from then directly through its outer atmosphere like the crown, or Corona.
Scientists hope that the data from Parker helps them to better understand the reason that the outer atmosphere of the sun is hundreds of times more than its surface and what drives the solar wind, and the fastest acoustic current for constantly charged particles away from the sun.
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