New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- The Parker Solar Probe of NASA, which became the first spacecraft to fly through the corona - the Sun's upper atmosphere - has just created a new record. Making history, the NASA Spacecraft checked in with flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, on September 18.

In its latest encounter with the sun's atmosphere, which was between September 10 and 20, Parker clocked a speed of 6,87,000 kilometers per hour, matching its own record for the fourth time.

Designed and built at APL, the NASA spacecraft sent Johns Hopkins a beacon code that its systems were functioning normally even after an autonomous manoeuvre through the Sun's atmosphere.

It is during this time Par...