The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Parker Solar Probe is making history by racing towards the Sun at a record speed of 435,000 mph, aiming to unravel mysteries about the Sun’s corona in a mission comparable to the Moon landing of 1969.
On December 24 next year, the space probe will be the first human-made object to have moved so fast or gotten so close to our star – just 6.1 million km, or 3.8 million miles, from the Sun’s “surface,” the BBC reported.
Parker project scientist Dr. Nour Raouafi told the British broadcaster: “We are basically almost landing on a star.
