According to Science and Technology Daily, Thomas Zubchin, deputy director of the Scientific Mission Council of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), announced at the 2021 American Geophysical Union Autumn Meeting held on the 14th that the "Parker" solar probe reached the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere (corona) at 9:33 EASTERN time on April 28 this year, and stayed there for 5 hours, becoming the first spacecraft to "touch the sun". The results were also published in the Physical Review Letters.
This mission was led by the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. The researchers say the Parker Solar Probe crossed the corona on its eighth approach to the sun in April. It took them months to recover the data, and then another few months to confirm. According to NASA, this is a milestone in the study of solar science, not only giving people a deeper understanding of the evolution of the sun and its impact on the solar system, but also helping people learn more about other stars in the universe.
Source: Science and Technology Daily
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