NASA's OSIRIS-APEX Survives Unexpectedly Close Sun Encounter
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NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft successfully completed its closest solar pass, thanks to innovative engineering solutions that protected its sensitive components. The spacecraft's instruments showed unexpected improvements, such as a reduction in "hot pixels" in its camera and the dislodging of a rock from its spectrometer. Despite this success, engineers remain cautious as OSIRIS-APEX must complete several more challenging perihelions to reach its target, asteroid Apophis, by 2029.
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