NASA claims that one of its spacecraft has 'touched' the sun for the first time. According to scientists, the Parker Solar Probe was able to enter the Sun's space called 'Corona', which had never been visited before.
According to the news agency, NASA scientists announced this development during the meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Tuesday. Scientists say the Parker Solar Probe reached the sun for the eighth time in April and entered its atmosphere.
The scientists said it took a few months to get the data and then several more months to verify.
According to the report, Johns Hopkins University project scientist Nour Raouafi described it as "fascinatingly interesting". According to the scientists, the spacecraft went in and out of the Corona at least three times, each time the transfer took place smoothly without any interruption.
NASA says the Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, was 8 million miles (approximately 13 million kilometers) away from the center of the Sun when it first crossed the uneven boundary between the solar atmosphere and the outgoing solar winds.
Justin Kasper from the University of Michigan told reporters that the most dramatic time was when we were under the air for the first time, you would understand that 5 hours is a very short time, but Parker was moving so fast that during this time it covered a great distance. The plane was moving at a speed of more than 62 miles (100 kilometers) per second.
According to Nour Raouafi, Corona turned out to be dustier than expected. He says more future visits to Corona will help scientists understand how solar winds begin, how they warm-up, and how they travel in space.
According to NASA, scientists say more analysis is needed. Parker made his 10th orbit around the sun last month. He will continue to explore the depths of Corona and his last orbit will be in 2025.
