<p>&#8220;NASA&#8217;s Parker Solar Probe completed the closest-ever approach to the Sun by a human-made spacecraft, coming within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface&#8230; The data will help scientists understand how material in that region gets heated to millions of degrees, trace the origin of solar wind, and discover how energetic particles are accelerated to [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://humanprogress.org/nasa-spacecraft-survives-closest-ever-approach-to-sun/">NASA Spacecraft Survives Closest-Ever Approach to Sun</a> appeared first on <a href="https://humanprogress.org">Human Progress</a>.</p>