NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes Record-Breaking Approach to the Sun, Sends Back 1st Detailed Update Written 3 January 2025
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Artist's rendition of NASA's Parker Solar Probe. | Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben; Wikipedia; Public Domain
SPACE reports, “NASA's Parker Solar Probe sent home its first detailed telemetry data soon after its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun. On Wednesday (Jan. 1), mission control at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland began receiving the Parker Solar Probe's first telemetry — or housekeeping data — that confirms Parker's systems and science instruments are 'healthy and operating normally' after its historic rendezvous with the sun, NASA shared in an update on Thursday (Jan. 2).”
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