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NASA solar probe zooms past Venus and smashes two wild space records — again – CNET

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Right now NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, a diminutive, scorch-proof spacecraft about the size of a small car is practically “touching the sun.” And it’s smashed two wild records, dethroning the previous champion — which also happened to be NASA’s Parker Solar Probe.
The probe, which launched in August 2018 on a mission to study the sun, has been flying ever closer to our solar system’s furnace using the planet Venus as a slingshot. On April 29, during its closest approach to the…

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