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Parker Solar Probe near the sun

April 2 , 2025 8 hrs 0 min 145 0
  • NASA’s Parker Solar Probe arrived recently within 6.1 million km from the star’s surface.
  • This is a short distance to be from the sun: no spacecraft has ever made such a close approach.
  • Even the Parker Solar Probe took seven years to get here.
  • ISRO’s Aditya-L1 probe is stationed at about 150 million km from the star.

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