Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Preparing Probe ‘To Get Closer To Sun Than Ever Before’

BALTIMORE (WJZ)– A solar probe built by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab is sitting inside an enormous vacuum chamber at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, undergoing tests at extreme temperatures.
There’s no room for mistakes when you send a spacecraft on the closest journey to the sun ever attempted.
The purpose of the Parker Solar Probe, according to APL’s Annette Dolbow “is to get closer to the sun than anything has ever been before.”
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