The Parker solar probe will approach within 6.1 million km of the surface of our star on Christmas Eve. It will fly at 692,000 km per hour, the fastest object created by humanity
Of all the places to which humanity has sent an artifact, none is as extreme as the Sun. Not the capsules submerged in the deepest depths of the Mariana Trench – where Mount Everest fits – nor the Voyager 1 and . ..
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