NASA SPACECRAFT TOUCH THE SUN FIRST TIME

NASA SPACECRAFT TOUCH THE SUN FIRST TIME

NASA has launched a mission to make a closest approach to sun that mission has been given named  'A MISSION TO TOUCH THE SUN'

                                 Parker SOLAR PROBE

We know well Sun is the hottest star of our solar system and we dont have much information about our sun.It has a certain reason why we dont have much information about our sun because of its hottest due to its massive temperature we could not get succeed to send any spacecraft near to sun.

According to the NASA helios-2 was only spacecraft which reached to closest the sun.Helios-2 was send by NASA AND GERMANY SPACE AGENCY to sun at 15 January 1977

HELIOS 2


Helios 2  knows also as Helios B which flew around the sun at distance 3,000,000 km but that was a big distance so it could not give enough information about Sun.



But NASA want to deep study about Sun about sun for that NASA have to be  explore to closest the Sun for that purpose NASA launched PARKER SOLAR PROBE at 12 August 2018 that spacecraft would be one which will fly closest the sun. Parker solar probe would take observation  at the distance 61 million km from sun at the speed of 700,000 km/h Parker solar probe is  only spacecraft which has got this speed so far.The Parker solar probe will be the first spacecraft to fly into the low solar corona.Corona is knows as the outer atmosphere of sun.

The name of this spacecraft has been taken from the name of physicist EUGENE PARKER who is the professor at University at the Chicago.

The duration of this mission is around  6 years

 


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