The Parker Solar Probe Just Keeps Breaking Records

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe already made history last year after becoming the fastest human made object ever, whipping around the Sun and reaching a speed of 394,736 miles per hour. Now it’s making history again, this time getting closer to our system’s central star than ever before.

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00:00NASA's Parker Solar Probe already made history last year after becoming the fastest human-made

00:09object ever, whipping around the sun and reaching a speed of 394,736 miles per hour.

00:17Now it's making history again, this time getting closer to our system's central star

00:21than ever before.

00:23Just before midnight last Thursday, the probe sent a communication back to mission control.

00:27It's first in several days.

00:28After being so close to the sun, interference prevented transmissions.

00:32The message?

00:33Well, it was safe and operating normally, and had just whizzed within 3.8 million miles of

00:38the sun's surface.

00:39That might not sound that close, but that is within the sun's outer atmosphere, meaning

00:44the Parker Solar Probe had to endure temperatures of more than 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

00:49With NASA's head of science, Dr. Nicola Fox, telling BBC, for centuries people have studied

00:54the sun, but you don't experience the atmosphere of a place until you actually go and visit

00:58it.

00:59This was the probe's 20-second pass of the star, with each subsequent one getting closer and

01:04faster as it is pulled in by the sun's gravity.

01:06This time, it zoomed past the solar surface at speeds of 420,000 miles per hour, meaning

01:12it also beat its previous speed record as well.

01:16It took a long time, because of the moon being Butterfly Metal, and many other people.

01:20It took a long time, but you need to find the moon, which is a state of paper.

01:25It took a long time, at the moment, and it has been a long time.

01:27It dropped into the sun, and it took a long time for a full time.

01:31An amazing time for the moon, it was about 5,000 miles per hour, considering the moon-ups,

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