{"id":19003,"date":"2024-12-27T17:58:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T18:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19003"},"modified":"2024-12-27T19:27:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T19:27:34","slug":"nasas-parker-solar-probe-sends-signal-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19003","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe Sends Signal Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The probe sent a signal to Earth indicating that it had survived the closest solar encounter ever attempted by a spacecraft.<\/p>\n

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On Dec. 24, NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe swooped closer than it ever had before<\/a> to the sun, just a few million miles above its blazing hot surface.<\/p>\n

The team behind the mission waited nervously, trusting that the probe would survive the encounter. Then, a few minutes shy of midnight on Thursday, Parker phoned home.<\/p>\n

The probe sent back not one but four signals indicating it was healthy, according to Nour Rawafi, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the project scientist of the mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like the spacecraft wanted to reassure us,\u201d he said, adding that the team was excited and relieved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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With the help of Venus\u2019s gravity, Parker has crept closer and closer to the sun with a series of flybys since its launch<\/a> in 2018. In the early stages of the mission, the team was anxious about the spacecraft getting so close to a star. But over time, Parker\u2019s successful orbits \u2014 21 and counting \u2014 built confidence.<\/p>\n

Still, there was some fear this time that the probe might not survive this time. Parker\u2019s heat shield is designed so that the front of the vehicle can withstand facing the blistering heat of the sun\u2019s outer atmosphere, which reaches millions of degrees, while the back, which contains the probe\u2019s sensitive instruments, sits at a comfortable 85 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n

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The probe sent a signal to Earth indicating that it had survived the closest solar encounter ever attempted by a spacecraft.On Dec. 24, NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe swooped closer than it ever had before to the sun, just a few million miles above its blazing hot surface.The team behind the mission waited nervously, trusting that the probe would survive the encounter. Then, a few minutes shy of midnight on Thursday, Parker phoned home.The probe sent back not one but four signals indicating it was healthy, according to Nour Rawafi, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the project scientist of the mission.\u201cIt\u2019s like the spacecraft wanted to reassure us,\u201d he said, adding that the team was excited and relieved.With the help of Venus\u2019s gravity, Parker has crept closer and closer to the sun with a series of flybys since its launch in 2018. In the early stages of the mission, the team was anxious about the spacecraft getting so close to a star. But over time, Parker\u2019s successful orbits \u2014 21 and counting \u2014 built confidence.Still, there was some fear this time that the probe might not survive this time. Parker\u2019s heat shield is designed so that the front of the vehicle can withstand facing the blistering heat of the sun\u2019s outer atmosphere, which reaches millions of degrees, while the back, which contains the probe\u2019s sensitive instruments, sits at a comfortable 85 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":19005,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19003","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\/19003","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=19003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19006,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19003\/revisions\/19006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}