Every half-meter it descends, the drilling system will pause and extend a custom-built thermal probe into the lunar regolith. LISTER will measure two different aspects of heat flow: thermal ...
Parker Solar Probe’s heat shield is 8 feet (2.4 meters) in diameter and 4.5 inches ... the spacecraft will trace the flow of energy across the surface of the star, study the heating of the ...
A NASA probe ventured closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history on Christmas Eve — and it whirled by at astounding speeds that also made it the fastest thing ever made by humans.
A NASA spacecraft has made history by surviving its closest-ever approach to the Sun during the Parker Solar Probe mission, a project over six years in the making. The spacecraft was out of ...
NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history Tuesday ... the spacecraft should have been about four yards (meters) from the end zone at the moment of closest approach—known as perihelion.