NASA Parker Solar Probe Performs Close Flyby of Sun Written 20 January 2021

SPACE reports that the NASA Parker Solar Probe spacecraft made another close approach to the sun on Sunday. The spacecraft will “conduct a total of four close approaches to the sun, plus two Venus flybys” this year. On Sunday, the Parker Solar Probe “made its closest approach to the sun at 12:39 p.m. EST,” at which time the spacecraft was “about 8.4 million miles (13.5 million kilometers) away from the sun’s surface and traveling at nearly 290,000 mph (470,000 kph), according to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which runs the spacecraft.” The Parker Solar Probe will fly past Venus on February 20 before it makes another close approach to the sun on April 29.
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