There are lots of eyes on the Sun this week, as NASA's Parker Solar Probe swings around our star on the seventh of its 24 scheduled orbits.
Parker Solar Probe Marks Seventh Successful Swing around the Sun
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There are lots of eyes on the Sun this week, as NASA's Parker Solar Probe swings around our star on the seventh of its 24 scheduled orbits.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe will make its next close approach to the Sun on Jan. 17, 2021, during its seventh science-gathering orbit around our star.
Data from Parker Solar Probe's fifth orbit around the Sun is now available to the public.
Zooming away from the Sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe checked in with its operators on Earth early on Sept. 30, 2020, letting them know it's healthy and operating normally.
Propelled by a midsummer flyby of Venus, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has started yet another record-setting, science-gathering swing around the Sun, its sixth flyby of our star.
Just over a month after Parker Solar Probe marked two action-packed years in space, the mission to "touch" the Sun released another trove of data to the public on Sept. 15.
Coming off its fifth encounter with the Sun — and the mission's longest observation campaign yet — Parker Solar Probe is now headed toward Venus.
On June 9, 2020, NASA's Parker Solar Probe signaled the success of its fifth close pass by the Sun, called perihelion, with a radio beacon tone.
On May 9, 2020, NASA's Parker Solar Probe began its longest observation campaign to date.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe team released a second collection of science data to the public on April 14, 2020.
