Osma A on Nostr: It won't cease to be amazing that we've built a spacecraft able to fly so close to ...

It won't cease to be amazing that we've built a spacecraft able to fly so close to the sun it can actually pass through a coronal mass ejection with matter flying past it over 1000 km/s and not only survive, but send us back observation data on what's going on in such an event.

Doubly interesting to me because my grandpa was a Sun-specializing astronomer. I have many memories of him poring through observation data on big stacks of printout in the early 80s.
https://www.jhuapl.edu/news/news-releases/230915b-nasa-parker-probe-close-encounter-with-coronal-mass-ejection-cme