On January 6, 2024, foreign news agencies reported that this year the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States (NASA) is attempting to take the “Parker Solar Probe” spacecraft through the sun’s atmosphere as well. Speed: 435,000 mph This is only 3.8 million miles from the fiery “surface”.
The Parker project scientist said in an interview that We’re basically about to land on a star. This will be a great achievement for mankind. This is equivalent to the moon landing in 1969.”
“Although 3.8 million miles may sound like a considerable distance, But it is only four percent of the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Despite its remoteness, the Parker Solar Probe must withstand temperatures of up to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
In addition, “NASA” boasts that the probe has already touched the sun. It was within 8.1 million miles of the solar surface at the end of last year. Then on Christmas Eve of this year It will fly past and break records.
As for the possibility of “landing” on the Sun, no more needs to be said. It is far from the experience of landing on a solid mass like Mars. The sun is a rotating cloud of hydrogen and helium gas. which is pressed together by its own gravity When this material leaves the sun’s corona or outer atmosphere It will become the solar wind. It forms a magnetic bubble around the Sun.
What is commonly called the “surface” is actually the photosphere, or “light sphere,” the sun’s first layer of atmosphere. It gets its name from the fact that it emits most of the visible light spectrum. This allows us to actually see it from Earth with our eyes, which are hopefully protected. The photosphere is 250 miles thick and has temperatures soaring to 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
In short, although the Parker Solar Probe may not actually land on our star, which is an impossible feat. But it will get closer than any previous man-made object, hoping to reveal some of the Sun’s remaining mysteries.
“As we get closer and closer to the solar surface, We will learn more about the sun’s properties,” Raouafi said in a statement last year. “But such information will improve our knowledge of space weather and our ability to Live and work in space”
The Parker Solar Probe is named after astrophysicist Eugene Parker, who first defined the “solar wind” in 1958. This is the first time a NASA spacecraft has been named after someone who live The spacecraft was launched on August 12, 2018.
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