Traveling to the sun: Why won’t Parker Solar Probe melt?
Thursday, July 19, 2018 - 16:10
in Astronomy & Space
This summer, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will launch to travel closer to the Sun, deeper into the solar atmosphere, than any mission before it. If Earth was at one end of a yard-stick and the Sun on the other, Parker Solar Probe will make it to within four inches of the solar surface. Inside that […]