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NASA's Parker Solar Probe just became the 1st spacecraft to fly through a solar explosion, and it captured it all on camera (www.livescience.com)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Link to the (incredible) footage captured

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Judging by the video quality, I'm just going to assume NASA just used a giant catapult to fling a Nokia 3310 at the sun

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm no expert, but I assume it's a highly specialized camera where the image quality wasn't the priority.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's exactly what I said tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Ah. I thought you meant the video quality was bad. But yea the space probe is probably indestructible

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