{"id":202320,"date":"2024-12-24T14:07:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T20:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/nasa-spacecraft-just-plunged-into-the-sun-and-broke-stunning-records"},"modified":"2024-12-24T14:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T20:07:50","slug":"nasa-spacecraft-just-plunged-into-the-sun-and-broke-stunning-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/nasa-spacecraft-just-plunged-into-the-sun-and-broke-stunning-records","title":{"rendered":"NASA spacecraft just plunged into the sun and broke stunning records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-spacecraft-just-plunged-into-the-sun-and-broke-stunning-records2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To make this record-breaking pass, the nearly 10-foot-long probe has made 22 orbits around the <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/nasa-sun-solar-maximum-activity-forecast-impacts\" target=\"_self\">sun<\/a>, allowing it to swoop ever deeper <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/nasa-probe-survives-sun\" target=\"_self\">into the corona<\/a>. And while doing so, the spacecraft has been continually picking up speed. When you repeatedly swing by such a massive and gravitationally powerful object \u2014 the sun is a sphere of hot gas <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/sun\/facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">333,000 times as massive<\/a> as our planet \u2014 you accrue lots of speed. Out in <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/space\" target=\"_self\">space<\/a>, there\u2019s nothing to stop this motion.<\/p>\n<p>On this close flyby, the probe reached some 430,000 miles per hour (692,000 kilometers per hour).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s like going from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. in one second,\u201d marveled Raouafi. \u201cIt\u2019s fascinating. It\u2019s the fastest human-made object ever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make this record-breaking pass, the nearly 10-foot-long probe has made 22 orbits around the sun, allowing it to swoop ever deeper into the corona. And while doing so, the spacecraft has been continually picking up speed. When you repeatedly swing by such a massive and gravitationally powerful object \u2014 the sun is a sphere [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202320","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}