NASA plans to “touch the sun” with spacecraft equipped with a thermal super shield

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Parker Solar Probe spacecraft NASA is planning run in early August to the Sun, got a few days ago heavy-duty a heat shield that allows you to get closer to the star on distance hitherto unattainable to any earth probe.

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US aerospace agency experts intend to bring Parker Solar Probe to the luminary at a distance of six million kilometers, where the device will be able to interact with the external the atmosphere of a star (its solar corona). This is what we need thermal super shield, which is made of carbon double layer a composite surrounded by a thick layer of foam, which makes it, with one hand, very light (only 80 kilograms, which is important for a similar device, which should go into a given orbit, accelerating well), and on the other – reliable (when warming up almost to 1500 degrees Celsius, this white defender will keep on the temperature of the probe itself, not exceeding 30 degrees).

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The goal of the current mission is to thoroughly study the heat fluxes, which we call solar winds. Faced with magnetic By the field of our planet, these particles cause geomagnetic storms, which adversely affect the health of earthlings, seriously interfere normal functioning of power grids, satellites, although delight us with beautiful northern lights. However, scientists are still not know the mechanisms that are behind the solar winds, and therefore not can adequately resist them. Here is such a daunting task for the study of the sun and scientists set themselves today, launching Parker Solar Probe. However, NASA experts may have more some tasks of studying the sun, which constantly throws up amazing puzzles, for example, demonstrates obscure giant objects near you …

By the way, this launch should take place on August 4 in Florida. how say a NASA specialist, they are almost completely ready for start, it remains just to check and double-check everything, in order to start the probe passed without a hitch.

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