NASA Offers Fly to the Sun

NASA is known to hold a major mission in the middle of this year. United States space agency, reportedly will launch a vehicle that will fly to the Sun, named Parker Solar Probe.The rides will travel orbiting the atmosphere of the Sun. "These venues will travel to areas unexplored by humans," said Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "The mission will answer questions that scientists are trying toexpress for more than six decades," he added.

The mission is touted as the first mission to approach the star and NASA's first mission to approach the Sun. In that historic mission, NASA invites you all to fly with Parker Solar Probe to the Sun's atmosphere. Until April 27, 2018, you are invited to register at http://go.nasa.gov/HotTicket. Once registered, you can also print certificates that are proof of your participation in this mission.

Parker Solar Probe is designed to honor Prof. Eugene Parker, a 90-year-old American astrophysicist who in 1958 proved the storm of the Sun. The $ 1.5 billion rides are designed at the Johns Hopkins University lab. The Parker Solar Probe, which will be launched between July 31 and August 19, 2018, does not fly directly to the Sun.

Previously, this vehicle will first fly to Planet Venus and around orbitnya as many as seven times. After that, Parker Solar Probe will make an approach to the Sun, of which will enter the orbit of Mercury. The primary mission of Parker Solar Probe is to track how energy and heat travel through the sun's outer atmosphere called the corona, and examine what accelerates the solar wind and energetic particles of the Sun.

With observational data to be obtained, it is expected to help increase the forecasts of weather events in space that could affect or affect the Earth. As proclaimed earlier, NASA is ready torun the latest mission in which it will fly the spacecraft to the Sun. If the plan is in line, the mission will start in 2018. And now, the US space agency scientist is revealing the type of spacecraft that will be used to penetrate the Sun, the Parker Solar Probe. The aircraft, asreported by the Mirror page on Friday (29/09/2017) named "Parker Solar Probe" and exhibited in limited.

Lead scientist Parker Solar Probe Nicky Fox, said the plane is designed to fly at least to the point of the Sun's corona. "The corona is the main 'key' of all the Sun's mystery that scientists have argued for decades, we hope Parker can penetrate and study it," Fox said. Fox itself revealed the aircraft can survive in extreme temperatures up to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (about 1,371 degrees Celsius). Later, the plane was tasked to collect data learned to Earthwithin a distance of 89 million miles to help researchers observe the characteristics of the atmosphere and the corona of the Sun.

Even so, Parker Solar Probe system engineer Jim Kinnison said it still took a long time to testthe aircraft before it was finally flown in 2018. "The reason, it is not an easy matter to flyspecial rides into Sun's orbit because besides heat, supersonic particles can be dangerous,"said Kinnison. With regard to aircraft development funds, NASA has reportedly poured about US $ 1.5 billion to create this aircraft. The Solar Probe Plus spacecraft will be protected bymaterials claimed to be resistant to heat and solar radiation. The instrument will be protectedwith carbon-composite material and thermal protection system with 4.5 inch thickness.
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