Christmas Eve, 2024 The Probe That Touched the Sun

On Christmas Eve, 2024, a spacecraft the size of a family car flew directly into the atmosphere of the sun, and survived.This is the story of NASA's Parker Solar Probe. Six years of orbital maneuvers. Seven Venus flybys. A heat shield built from carbon foam that is 97% air. And a two-day communications blackout while the world slept and a team of engineers sat at their screens waiting for a signal that might never come.When it returned, it brought back something humanity had never had before, a direct view of the solar corona from inside it.In this video we break down the full mission: the 80-year mystery the probe was built to solve, the engineering that made survival possible, and what the data means for every person on Earth who depends on a power grid, a GPS signal, or a functioning satellite.The sun was untouchable for most of human history.We touched it.

References:
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe Touches The Sun For The First Time — https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasa-s-parker-solar-probe-touches-the-sun-for-the-first-time/
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun — https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-snaps-closest-ever-images-to-sun/
- Parker Solar Probe (Mission Page) — https://science.nasa.gov/mission/parker-solar-probe/

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