{"id":130246,"date":"2021-11-08T12:44:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T20:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-solar-probe-bombarded"},"modified":"2021-11-08T12:44:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T20:44:50","slug":"nasa-solar-probe-bombarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-solar-probe-bombarded","title":{"rendered":"NASA solar probe bombarded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-solar-probe-bombarded2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Parker Solar Probe is an engineering marvel, designed by NASA to \u201ctouch the sun\u201d and reveal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/nasa-solar-probe-touches-the-sun-uncovers-solar-wind-mysteries\/\">some of the star\u2019s most closely guarded secrets<\/a>. The scorch-proof craft, launched by NASA in August 2,018 has been slowly sidling up to our solar system\u2019s blazing inferno for the past three years, studying its magnetic fields and particle physics along the way. It\u2019s been a successful journey, and the probe has been racking up speed records. In 2,020 it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/home\/energy-and-utilities\/nasa-solar-probe-becomes-fastest-object-ever-built-as-it-touches-the-sun\/\">became the fastest human-made object<\/a> ever built.<\/p>\n<p>But Parker is learning a lesson about the consequences of its great speed: constant bombardment by space dust.<\/p>\n<p>Unlock the biggest mysteries of our planet and beyond with the CNET Science newsletter. Delivered Mondays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parker Solar Probe is an engineering marvel, designed by NASA to \u201ctouch the sun\u201d and reveal some of the star\u2019s most closely guarded secrets. The scorch-proof craft, launched by NASA in August 2,018 has been slowly sidling up to our solar system\u2019s blazing inferno for the past three years, studying its magnetic fields and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}