{"id":206574,"date":"2025-01-02T19:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T19:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/nasas-parker-solar-probe-survived-its-closest-approach-to-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T19:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T19:50:04","slug":"nasas-parker-solar-probe-survived-its-closest-approach-to-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/nasas-parker-solar-probe-survived-its-closest-approach-to-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe survived its closest approach to the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet<\/a> at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 million kilometers of the surface of the sun, beating its own 2023 record<\/a> of 7.26 million kilometers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time of closest approach, the spacecraft was also the fastest object ever made by humans. It swung around the sun at about 692,000 kilometers per hour \u2014 fast enough to travel from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., in about a second.<\/p>\n\n\n