Mission teams will lose direct contact with Parker probe while it passes 3.8 million miles from sun’s surface
Nasa’s pioneering Parker solar probe is poised to make its closest ever approach of the sun on Christmas Eve, a record-setting 3.8m miles (6.2m km) from the surface.
Launched in August 2018, the spaceship is on a seven-year mission to deepen scientific understanding of our star and help forecast space weather events that can affect life on Earth.
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