NASA's Surya Parker Ride Successfully Approaches The Sun

NASA announced that Wahana Surya Parker managed to break the record set by the agency. On Thursday, December 26 evening, NASA had received a signal from Parker.

This is good news for the space agency because Parker's signal was cut off on December 24, according to estimates by the Mission Operation Team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).

This signal disappeared because Parker approached the Sun and tried to survive the star's energy. With Parker's signal reappearing, it shows that NASA managed to send a vehicle to monitor the Sun closely.

This is also a record for Parker, the ride that is claimed to be closest to the Sun so far. Currently, Parker is at an altitude of 3.8 million miles from the Sun's surface and moves about 430,000 miles per hour.

NASA's Solar Probe masker has sent a flare tone back to Earth showing the ride is in good condition and operating normally, NASA said some time ago via its official blog.

After reconnecting with the mission operations team on land, NASA is now waiting for telemitri data from the ride. Parker is targeted to send detailed telemitry data on January 1.

From the data Parker sends, scientists will study how the Sun material can heat up to millions of degrees. They will also search for the origin of the solar wind and learn how energetic particles accelerate to get to the speed of light.