NASA's Parker Solar Probe embarks on a mission to 'touch' the sun
By : Arirang News
Published On: 2018-08-10
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인류 최초 태양 탐사선 11일 '태양속으로' 대장정 올라
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, named after astro-physicist Eugene Park, will fly to the sun, taking us closer to its surface than any other mission in history.
The car-sized spacecraft will be launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Saturday at around 3:50 am eastern standard time.
The one-point-five billion dollar mission aims to discover why the corona, the sun's atmosphere..., is so much hotter than it's surface, and also to investigate the cause of solar winds.
With a carbon heat shield, the probe will travel to within six-point-one million kilometers of the sun’s surface.
After making its closest approach in late 2024, the spacecraft will run out of fuel and be destroyed.
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