Home › Multimedia › World in picture › NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes 2nd Daring Flyby of Sun aaa NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes 2nd Daring Flyby of Sun About Islam 07 April, 2019 NASA’s record-breaking solar mission completed another close pass of the sun on April 4. The perihelion maneuver resulted in a closest approach at 10:40pm UTC when the probe was 24 km above the surface of the sun.