Earth will reach its closest point to the sun ... The reason for that is that Solar Orbiter's goal is to take images of the sun. Even at that distance, the spacecraft experiences temperatures ...
Don't expect much, like new photos or sun videos ... The Christmas Eve solar flyby of the Parker Solar Probe may be its closest sun flyby of its mission, but it won't be the last.
A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. Scientists received a signal from the Parker Solar Probe just before midnight EST on Thursday (05:00 GMT on Friday ...