NASA’s Parker Solar spacecraft has entered the Sun’s atmosphere for the first time as a historic achievement.
Record: December 15, 2021 13:27
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The Earth is about 93 million miles from the Sun. NASA scientists have built the first spacecraft, the Parker Solar Probe, to study the sun. The spacecraft was launched in August 2018 from the Cape Canaveral rocket launch site in the US state of Florida.
The Parker spacecraft has traveled 15 million miles (24 million km) to the Sun to collect information about the Sun. The spacecraft will eventually travel about 4 million miles (6 million km) from the Sun’s surface, seven times closer than any previous spacecraft.
☀️ Our #ParkerSolarProbe has touched the Sun!
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has flown through the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona. Here’s what it means: https://t.co/JOPdn7GTcv
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– NASA (@NASA) December 14, 2021
The spacecraft was launched to study the corona of the Sun’s atmospheric overlay.
NASA spacecraft Parker Solar has entered the Sun’s atmosphere for the first time as a historic achievement. NASA says it has now done what it once thought was impossible to enter the Sun’s atmosphere.
According to NASA, the spacecraft successfully entered the Sun’s atmosphere on April 28 at a temperature of about 2 million degrees Fahrenheit. NASA has now confirmed that the Parker Solar Probe has successfully entered the Sun’s atmosphere.
Although astronauts continue to discover many rare facts about the universe’s planets and moons, much of the information about the Sun, the source of our solar system, remains a mystery.
Helios 2, the first spacecraft to go into space in the 1970s to gather information about the Sun, was able to study the Sun from a distance of about 27 million miles. So far no one was able to send in the perfect solution, which is not strange.
NASA has launched the ‘Parker Solar Probe’ satellite, which can explore the sun, which heats up to tens of thousands of degrees Celsius every second, at a distance of ‘forty million miles’ or very close.
The Parker Solar Probe, which can collect and send new information about the ‘solar storm’ or solar meteorite that could cause the sun and major catastrophes, is expected to fly over 64 lakh km of the solar system, withstanding heat and massive radiation of about 1,400 Celsius (2,500 Fahrenheit). It was also said to be capable of research.
This is because the satellite has a shield of carbon composite about 11.4 cm (4.5 inches) thick that can withstand extreme weather conditions. The Parker Solar Probe, which is capable of flying at a speed of about 7,25,000 km per hour, will orbit the sun 24 times in about 6 years and 11 months.