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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 30433378" data-attributes="member: 562115">[MEDIA=youtube]c80TzqNoqMg[/MEDIA]NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun has confirmed that it survived its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun’s surface on Dec. 24.Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles (around 6.1 million kilometers) above the surface of the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour (692,000 kilometers per hour) — faster than any human-made object has ever moved. A beacon tone, received in the mission operations center at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) late on Dec. 26, confirmed the spacecraft had made it through the encounter safely and is operating normally. APL designed, built and operates the spacecraft from its campus in Laurel, Maryland.</blockquote>

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