NASA's Parker probe takes its first shot in the Sun's atmosphere

Parker Solar Probe, a probe sent by NASA in August to "touch" the sun, has already broken the record for the fastest spacecraft ever built by mankind and fulfills your goal is to get you closer of our star more than ever. Parker now presents his first recorded photograph of the solar atmosphere.

Over the next seven years, the probe will make another 24 approximations of the Sun, reaching about 6 million kilometers from its surface in its maximum approximation. On November 6, Parker was 24 million km from the solar surface, twice as close to the Sun as any other spacecraft that had already been sent there – Helios, in the 1970s.

Until December 7, the probe was on the opposite side of the Sun from the Earth and therefore , transmitted his observations until then. After the probe moved into a communications-friendly area, the NASA team received a photo showing the nearby solar corona (the crown being the thin outer solar atmosphere). With this mission, the space agency hopes to solve the mystery of why the solar corona is about 300 times hotter than the surface of the star.

The Parker Solar Probe is still NASA's first probe named after a living person, honoring the world. 91-year-old astrophysicist Eugene Parker, still guaranteeing the lowest price of his technology purchases. , who was the first scientist to present the supersonic solar wind theory, first appeared in 1958.

Source: NASA