{"id":254826,"date":"2023-10-16T11:31:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T15:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=310465"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:57:36","slug":"this-impressive-record-has-not-been-achieved-on-earth-nor-has-it-been-done-by-a-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/this-impressive-record-has-not-been-achieved-on-earth-nor-has-it-been-done-by-a-human\/","title":{"rendered":"A new record is achieved… outside Earth and by something unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When we talk about records<\/a>, most people typically think of a human (or several) accomplishing a great feat. And, well, we also tend to imagine it’s something done on Earth. Although there are more than a few records set in space<\/strong> (mostly by astronauts), they are indeed not very common.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Indeed, just a few weeks ago, this very thing happened. On September 27th, NASA<\/strong>‘s Parker Solar Probe became the fastest human-made object<\/a>. The probe sent by the U.S. space agency reached a speed of 635,266 kilometers per hour<\/strong> as it approached the Sun at a distance of only 7.26 million kilometers<\/strong>, closer than any other spacecraft before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launched in August 2018, the Parker Solar Probe’s mission is to study the Sun’s corona<\/strong>, the outermost layer of its atmosphere. To achieve this, it utilizes gravitational assists from Venus<\/strong>, allowing it to lose orbital energy and “fall” closer to the Sun. The probe<\/a> is scheduled to make a final flyby of Venus and reach its closest approach to the Sun in late 2024<\/strong>, at a mere 6.16 million kilometers from its surface.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Indeed, it not only sets records in speed and distance but also in scientific achievements. NASA<\/a>‘s Parker Solar Probe has become the first spacecraft to pass through a coronal mass ejection (CME)<\/strong>, a massive eruption of plasma that the Sun releases into space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This moment was captured by the probe’s camera, which survived without damage<\/strong>. By analyzing these images, scientists will be able to gain a better understanding of how the Sun operates and how to predi<\/a>c<\/a>t solar storms<\/a><\/strong> that impact Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Parker Solar Probe is a marvel of engineering and space exploration that is revealing to us the secrets of the Sun<\/strong>, making us witnesses to its incredible power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA broke a record a few weeks ago thanks to its Parker solar probe, in charge of investigating the Sun’s corona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9256,"featured_media":254829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[4289],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-254826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionnasa-app"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317202,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254826\/revisions\/317202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254826"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=254826"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=254826"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=254826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}