NASA's Parker Solar Probe survives historic plunge through Sun's corona at record 430,000 mph
The fastest object humanity has ever built, moving at 430,000 miles per hour. A region of space millions of degrees hot. A 4.5-inch slab of carbon standing between the two. When NASA's Parker Solar…
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