On December 24, NASA's solar probe mission plans to touch the Sun

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Published December 20, 2024 at 12:07 PM EST

On December 24, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will touch the Sun diving through plumes of plasma, and entering the Sun's Corona, its outermost atmosphere.

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