NASA Parker Solar probe to zip past the Sun at 435,000 miles per hour speed in 2024

NASA’s daring Parker Solar Probe is preparing to “touch” the Sun again in late 2024.

In this upcoming close encounter, the probe will rapidly soar through the Sun’s upper atmosphere, known as the corona.

Just as landing on the moon gave scientists significant insights into its origin and geological history, “touching” or carefully analyzing the components that make up the Sun is crucial to understanding our host star and its influence on the whole solar system.

In December 2021, NASA made history by announcing that, for the very first time, a spacecraft had made contact with the Sun by flying…