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This Christmas Eve, a vehicle will travel at incomprehensible speed around a celestial object to bring wonder to the people of Earth \u2014 and it\u2019s not Santa\u2019s sleigh.<\/p>\n

On Dec. 24 at 6:40 a.m. Eastern time, the Parker Solar Probe, a NASA spacecraft, will pass within 3.8 million miles of the sun\u2019s surface, more than seven times closer than any previous mission has. While surfing across the corona, the sun\u2019s outer atmosphere, Parker will surpass the blistering speed of 430,000 miles per hour, breaking its own record as the fastest object ever made by humans.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a voyage of discovery,\u201d said Nicky Fox, associate administrator of NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate. \u201cWe really are going into the unknown. Nothing has flown through the atmosphere of a star, and no other mission will for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Since its launch<\/a> in 2018, Parker has inched progressively closer to the sun during 21 solar flybys, called perihelions. The mission, a collaboration between NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, has revolutionized our understanding<\/a> of the sun, spotted comets<\/a>, snapped captivating pictures and yielded insights<\/a> about Venus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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An artist\u2019s concept of the probe on its approach to the sun.<\/span>NASA\/Johns Hopkins APL\/Ben Smith<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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The first WISPR images of Venus taken in July 2020 during the probe\u2019s third flyby.<\/span>NASA\/APL\/NRL<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In addition to its scientific haul, Parker has overcome the technical challenges of flying so close to the sun that the probe\u2019s heat shield must contend with temperatures of nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n

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This Christmas Eve, a vehicle will travel at incomprehensible speed around a celestial object to bring wonder to the people of Earth \u2014 and it\u2019s not Santa\u2019s sleigh.On Dec. 24 at 6:40 a.m. Eastern time, the Parker Solar Probe, a NASA spacecraft, will pass within 3.8 million miles of the sun\u2019s surface, more than seven times closer than any previous mission has. While surfing across the corona, the sun\u2019s outer atmosphere, Parker will surpass the blistering speed of 430,000 miles per hour, breaking its own record as the fastest object ever made by humans.\u201cIt\u2019s a voyage of discovery,\u201d said Nicky Fox, associate administrator of NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate. \u201cWe really are going into the unknown. Nothing has flown through the atmosphere of a star, and no other mission will for a long time.\u201dSince its launch in 2018, Parker has inched progressively closer to the sun during 21 solar flybys, called perihelions. The mission, a collaboration between NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, has revolutionized our understanding of the sun, spotted comets, snapped captivating pictures and yielded insights about Venus.An artist\u2019s concept of the probe on its approach to the sun.NASA\/Johns Hopkins APL\/Ben SmithThe first WISPR images of Venus taken in July 2020 during the probe\u2019s third flyby.NASA\/APL\/NRLIn addition to its scientific haul, Parker has overcome the technical challenges of flying so close to the sun that the probe\u2019s heat shield must contend with temperatures of nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18855,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18856,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853\/revisions\/18856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}