NASA invites media to view launch of mission to “Touch the Sun”

In order to revolutionize our understanding of the sun, NASA made an announcement about their mission to ‘Touch the Sun’. For, that, they designed a spacecraft called Parker Solar Probe.

Unlike any other probe, this Solar Probe Plus mission will have to cope with temperatures and radiation. It will collect the data during the process and help astronomers predict solar storms. In addition, it will provide clues on some of the deepest mysteries surrounding our closest star.

To study sun’s surface, its solar winds and cosmic rays, previously in 1976, a 370-kilogram (815-pound) block of instruments called Helios 2 came within about 43 million kilometers.

The spacecraft has the size of a car. Covered with revolutionary a 4.5-inch-thick (11.43 cm) carbon-composite heat shield, it will fly through the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere, called corona.

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