Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Our Parker Solar Probe survived its closest ever approach to the Sun. It broke its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, and it hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever moved. This video is a conceptual animation of Parker Solar Probe making its closest approach to the Sun.
Learn more: science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-history-with-closest-pass-to-sun
Our Parker Solar Probe survived its closest ever approach to the Sun. It broke its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, and it hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever moved. This video is a conceptual animation of Parker Solar Probe making its closest approach to the Sun.
Learn more: science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-history-with-closest-pass-to-sun
