NASA Spacecraft Preparing to Fly Through Sun

Godspeed.Time for a TanForget the cautionary tale of Icarus. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is just days away from flying into the Sun — or through its outer layers, depending on how you look at the maneuver — in a daring bid to glean the secrets of our star’s megahot winds, Ars Technica reports.Ever since it launched in 2018, the diminutive spacecraft, which weighs less than a ton, has been performing flybys of our star at record-breaking speeds.But on Christmas eve, the orbiter will make its closest approach yet, coming within 3.8 million…

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