First NASA Plane Successfully Touches the Sun with the Closest Distance

, Jakarta – Website DW Indonesia quoted on Wednesday (12/15/2021) reported a spaceship NASA has managed to get closer to the sun, with the closest distance than any other man-made object. NASA announced on Tuesday December 14 that the craft had ‘touched’ the sun’s atmosphere known as the corona.

The plane’s first successful contact with the sun’s outer layer was announced at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The plane successfully touched Sun after traveling 150 million kilometers from Earth.

Significant Achievements

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe rover crossed the corona for five hours in April. Previously, the Parker Solar Probe had made close contact eight times with the core of the solar system. Then scientists need several months to receive the data and analyze it to confirm the achievements of the plane that launched in 2018.

“The fact that the probe has touched the sun is a pinnacle moment for solar system science and a remarkable achievement,” Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s science mission board, said in a statement. dpa.

The Parker Solar Probe has successfully traveled as far as 13 million kilometers from the center of the sun. Parker is said to have crossed the sun’s atmosphere at least three times where temperatures could reach 2 million kelvins (about 1,999,726.85 degrees Celsius), at speeds of 100 kilometers per second.

NASA Delays James Webb Launch

Meanwhile, NASA announced on Wednesday December 15 that it was delaying the launch of its newest space telescope, the James Webb. The delay of at least two days was due to communication problems between the observatory and the carrier rocket.

The launch of James Webb is targeted to be carried out on December 24.

The US$10 billion (Rp 140 trillion) telescope will be placed on top of Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket and launched from French Guiana, South America. The James Webb telescope is predicted to be able to see farther into space than its predecessor the Hubble telescope.

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