Record: So close yet no probe was in the sun

No research probe is the sun far closer than "Parker's Solar Probe" spacecraft of the Nasa. on Monday, 1976 from "Helios-2" set a record of 43 million kilometers distance undercut

"Parker Solar Probe" will come from the sun, but even closer. Already next week you will fly to the calculations for the first time by the corona, the outer atmosphere of the sun. You will then be about 24 million kilometers from the sun's surface.

According to the mission plan, the probe will try in the next seven years, 24 Times, close to the sun to approach to fly. The least distance is expected to amount to just under 6.2 million kilometers. It has to keep "Parker" in temperatures around 1370 degrees Celsius, according to Betticket Nasa, more heat and radiation to hit as a missile before. Is protected the 700-pound probe through a nearly twelve-inch-thick carbon tank.

From the Mission, the researchers hope to answer important questions. So you want to know why in the corona to temperatures of up to 5.6 million degrees Celsius, while the surface of the sun is only 5500 degrees Celsius. In addition, the researchers hope that in the future, for the prediction of so-called solar storms better data.

in the seventies the sun had been up close and personal investigation. At that time, the German-American probes "Helios 1" and "Helios 2", which were, however, with around 45 million kilometers a greater distance from the heat the ball began.

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