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The Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun

(arstechnica.com)
164 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 20 Dec 24 11:23 UTC | HN request time: 1.248s | source
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amelius ◴[20 Dec 24 19:50 UTC] No.42474343[source]▶
Of course it is completely evaporated before hitting anything that remotely resembles a surface.
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1. alnwlsn ◴[20 Dec 24 20:30 UTC] No.42474730[source]▶
To be clear, it's not the end of the mission as far as I'm aware. It will come around again and do 4 more sun flybys next year.