NASA’s Closest Spacecraft To The Sun Flies Through A Colossal Solar Explosion

2023-09-18 06:25 AM by Jessica Irvine

Parker Solar Probe’s Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) instrument captured the moment the … [+] spacecraft passed through a coronal mass ejection (CME) on Sept. 5, 2022. getty NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has become the first spacecraft ever to fly through a coronal mass ejection from the sun—a powerful eruption of billions of tons …

NASA Mission To ‘Touch The Sun’ Makes Close Flyby Of Venus

2023-08-22 05:08 AM by Jessica Irvine

Artist’s concept of Parker Solar Probe. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s Parker Solar Probe yesterday made a flyby of Venus as part of its mission to study the sun from closer than any other spacecraft. It was the sixth and penultimate time the car-sized spacecraft required a gravity assist from the second planet in …