NASA's team running Parker reported that the lithe golden craft has completed its twelfth dip, near our home star -- dashing along (in blur-mode!), covering about 100 miles in every second, on its gracefully bending arc, now.
[With a throwback header, for the morning, now -- to remind how far we've collectively come, from those early days. . . I move the current masthead to the footer of this one.] Here is that story, in full:
. . .Matching its own records for speed and distance to the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 12th close approach to the Sun on June 1, coming within 5.3 million miles (8.5 million kilometers) of the solar surface.
The close approach (known as perihelion) occurred at 6:50 p.m. EDT (10:50 p.m. UTC), with Parker Solar Probe moving about 364,660 miles per hour (586,860 kilometers per hour) – fast enough to cover the distance between Los Angeles and London in under a minute. The milestone also marked the midway point in the mission’s 12th solar encounter, which began May 27 and continues through June 7. . . .
Onward, smiling -- as we will get to drop onto the Venusian surface, by about 2031, now -- if the federal funding lasts.
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