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Sharmila Kuthunur

NASA's Parker Solar Probe phones home after surviving historic close sun flyby. It's alive!

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on August 12, 2018 on a mission to study the sun. .

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is alive!

Two days after an historic Christmas Eve sun flyby that flew closer to the star than any spacecraft in history — taking the car-sized spacecraft nearly 10 times closer to the sun than Mercury — the Parker Solar Probe phoned home for the first time since its solar encounter. The spacesent sent a simple yet highly-anticipated beacon tone to Earth just before midnight late Thursday (Dec. 26).

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