20 minutes agoNASA launchs vehicle that will approach the sun as never before
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Prepared to start “stafeta” spatial target of “precate” for the first time the sun. NASA will open the way tomorrow morning with the launch of the probe “Par Solar Probe”, which in seven years of mission will be the first means to visit a star, as well as the one to get closer [...]
Then the line will be the European Space Agency (ESA) with the probe “Solar Orbiter”, whose launch, originally scheduled for October, is postponed in February 2020, will take place just in due time to reach the sun when it is at the minimum of its activity.
“TTE approaches the Sun when it is in hibernation enables you to better analyze how active regions change, solar spots and particles issue as it goes towards maximum of the new solar cycle”, explains Mauro Meserotti, of Trie Observatory at the National Institute of Astrophysics (INFA) and professor at Trite University.
“The Parker probe will reach a record distance of 6.3 million miles from the sun. It will sink into the solar crown, where temperatures reach the level of 377 degrees Celsius”, says the expert.
The super-enhanced model of probes will help us understand what causes solar winds and energy particles to become increasingly detailed forecasts of solar storms and spatial weather”, the Messerott points out.
However, probe “Solar Orbiter” The ESA will not venture so much, it will stop at about 43 million miles [43 million km] from the sun to monitor polar regions from which the “autostradas” are sent to solar particles in the interplanetary space.
