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NASA spacecraft – the probe came as close as possible to the Sun – UNIAN
The spacecraft will send detailed data on its condition on January 1.
NASA said its Parker solar probe is “safe” and operating normally after successfully completing the closest approach to the Sun of any man-made object in history, Reuters reports.
The spacecraft is known to have passed 6.1 million km from the surface of the Sun on December 24, entering the Sun's outer atmosphere, called the corona. Thus, this will help scientists learn more about the star closest to Earth.
The agency added that the operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland received a beacon signal from the probe shortly before midnight on Thursday.
NASA expects…
