Humans have historically developed some pretty fast objects, from high speed jets to speeding bullets. However, according to NASA, the Parker Solar Probe is the fastest thing ever built by man.
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00:00Humans have historically developed some pretty fast objects, from high-speed jets to speeding
00:08bullets.
00:09However, according to NASA, the Parker Solar Probe is the fastest thing ever built by man.
00:14The space agency says the probe is currently traveling at an unfathomable 394,736 miles
00:22per hour, which Science Alert reports that's fast enough to fly from New York to L.A. in
00:27just 20 seconds, or fly around the planet 15 times in an hour.
00:31This all comes after the probe's 20th trip around the sun.
00:34The Parker Solar Probe is also the human-made object with the record for closest solar flyby
00:38as well, coming within just 4.5 million miles of it.
00:42And its next pass is set to be even closer, coming within 3.8 million miles of the sun.
00:47But the spacecraft can take it.
00:49The Parker Solar Probe can withstand temperatures upwards of 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
00:54So whose speed record did the Solar Probe break?
00:56Well, its own.
00:57Still, the Solar Probe isn't done yet.
01:00Its mission still involves many more trips around the sun.
01:03And who knows what records it might yet set.