NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has officially become the first spacecraft to touch the sun
This achievement comes 60 years after the space agency set the goal… and three years after the Parker Solar Probe was launched.
The spacecraft flew through the sun’s corona… which is its upper atmosphere… in a bid to “sample particles and our star’s magnetic fields”.
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate says “not only does this milestone provide us with deeper insights into our Sun’s evolution and (its) impacts on our solar system, but everything we learn about our own star also teaches us more about stars in the rest of the universe.”
