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Parker Solar Probe – Completion of One Year

August 20 , 2019 1926 days 1788 0
  • On August 12, 2019 NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed a year in service.
  • It is a part of NASA’s “Living With a Star” programme that explores different aspects of the Sun-Earth system.
  • The probe seeks to gather information about the Sun’s atmosphere.
  • It is the closest a human-made object has ever gone to the Sun.
  • One of Parker's main objectives is to investigate why sun’s corona is over a million degrees Fahrenheit while the solar layers below are only a few thousand degrees Fahrenheit each.
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