NASA’s Parker Solar Probe beams home 1st in-depth upgrade after record-breaking method to the sun
A visualization of the Parker Solar Probe in front of the sun. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)
On New Year's Day, NASA's Parker Solar Probe contributed to the joyful cheer by sending out home more excellent news about its record-breaking closest-ever method to the sun.On Wednesday (Jan. 1), objective control at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland started getting the Parker Solar Probe's very first telemetry-- or housekeeping information-- that verifies Parker's systems and science instruments are "healthy and running usually" after its historical rendezvous with the sun, NASA shared in an upgrade on Thursday (Jan. 2)."All is looking great with the spacecraft systems and instrument operations," Michael Buckley, a representative a...