In December of next year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be passing by the Sun at an incredible 435,000 miles per hour (195 kilometers per hour) and this is expected to be a pivotal moment in the history of space exploration.
There is a very small chance that any other object created by humans would have come close to our star within the distance of 6.1 million kilometres, or 3.8 million miles; no other object created by humans could have moved so rapidly or been so close to our star.
Dr. Nour Raouafi, the Parker project scientist, said, “We are basically on the verge of landing on a star.”
As the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory scientist told BBC, this would be a monumental accomplishment for all humanity. It would be comparable to the moon landing in 1969, he added.
There is a strong gravitational pull that Parker will experience as it approaches the sun, which will cause it to travel at a high speed. Taking this quick 30-second flight from New York to London will be similar to taking a quick flight from New York to Chicago.
As a result of the Parker Solar Probe mission, the US space agency is undertaking one of the most daring missions ever imagined.
As a result of its launch in 2018, it had the potential of making many approaches to the Sun at ever-closer distances.
During the near-future manoeuvre in late 2024, Parker will only cover less than 4 percent of the distance between the Sun and Earth (149 million kilometers or 93 million miles).
In order for Parker to accomplish his goal, he will have to face a lot of challenges. In the event that the probe is closest to the star at perihelion, the point in its orbit when it is closest to the star, the temperature on the front of the probe will likely hit 1,400C.
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