Sunday, February 2, 2020

New record for Parker Solar Probe


Nasa's Parker Solar Probe realised it's fourth close approach to the Sun. This fourth encounter resulted in breaking the speedrecord as is now 393044 km/h and the closest distance to the Sun of 18.6 million km (as reference Earth is about 150 million km located from the Sun). As the probe is getting closer, temperature is increasing up to 612°C but equipment is kept cool up to 30°C.