{"id":84574,"date":"2018-11-07T19:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T03:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/parker-solar-probe-reports-good-status-after-close-solar-approach"},"modified":"2018-11-07T19:42:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T03:42:32","slug":"parker-solar-probe-reports-good-status-after-close-solar-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/parker-solar-probe-reports-good-status-after-close-solar-approach","title":{"rendered":"Parker Solar Probe Reports Good Status After Close Solar Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FjdZU0whkug?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>#ParkerSolarProbe<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Parker Solar Probe is alive and well after skimming by the Sun at just 15 million miles from our star\u2019s surface. This is far closer than any spacecraft has ever gone \u2014 the previous record was set by Helios B in 1976 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2018\/parker-solar-probe-breaks-record-becomes-closest-spacecraft-to-sun\">broken by Parker on Oct. 29<\/a> \u2014 and this maneuver has exposed the spacecraft to intense heat and solar radiation in a complex solar wind environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParker Solar Probe was designed to take care of itself and its precious payload during this close approach, with no control from us on Earth \u2014 and now we know it succeeded,\u201d said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate at the agency headquarters in Washington. \u201cParker is the culmination of six decades of scientific progress. Now, we have realized humanity\u2019s first close visit to our star, which will have implications not just here on Earth, but for a deeper understanding of our universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab received the status beacon from the spacecraft at 4:46 p.m. EST on Nov. 7, 2018. The beacon indicates status \u201cA\u201d \u2014 the best of all four possible status signals, meaning that Parker Solar Probe is operating well with all instruments running and collecting science data and, if there were any minor issues, they were resolved autonomously by the spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2018\/parker-solar-probe-reports-good-status-after-close-solar-approach\/\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2018\/parker-solar-probe...-approach\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#ParkerSolarProbe Parker Solar Probe is alive and well after skimming by the Sun at just 15 million miles from our star\u2019s surface. This is far closer than any spacecraft has ever gone \u2014 the previous record was set by Helios B in 1976 and broken by Parker on Oct. 29 \u2014 and this maneuver has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84574","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}