MORE: NASA's Parker Solar Probe to give closest look ever at the sun"This is a major engineering accomplishment," Adam Szabo, project scientist for Parker Solar Probe at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a statement. The Parker Solar Probe launched Aug. 12, 2018, with the goal of studying the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere, also known as the outer corona. PHOTO: Parker Solar Probe (Photo Illustration/NASA)During the probe's Dec. 24 close approach, known as perihelion, NASA mission control will be unable to contact Parker for some three days. During the probe's third Venus flyby in July 2020, its camera – the Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, or WISPR – captured images of Venus' scorching-hot surface through the thick cloud cover. NASA's Parker Solar Probe to pass Venus on record-breaking approach to the sun originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

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