A NASA probe touched the Sun.
The agency acknowledged that the solar probe touched the Sun, in the way that it said it dipped below the upper part of the Sun's atmosphere. It took months for the data to be sent back to Earth and for researchers to confirm their findings, but it was announced at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Tuesday.
Thomas Zurbuchen, associate admin of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said in a NASA press release that theParker Solar Probe "touching the Sun" is a monumental moment for solar science and a truly remarkable feat.
Sun God.
The findings were published in the journal. The mission to touch the Sun revealed new information about solar wind and its magnetic field. It gives researchers a glimpse intophenomena that are impossible to study from afar.
Zurbuchen said that this milestone will provide us with deeper insights into our Sun's evolution and its impacts on our solar system, as well as teach us more about stars in the rest of the universe.
Wear sunscreen.
The atmosphere of the Sun is brutal. The American Physical Society said that engineers developed a carbon heat shield with an extremely high melting temperature.
The outer section of the shield was covered with animal bones. The powdered bones help absorb and reflect the heat of the Sun.
We have a space probe that touched the Sun. We think that theParker is the most metal NASA has ever had.
NASA Enters the Solar Atmosphere for the first time.
NASA just launched a new space probe that will venture closer to the sun than any craft before it.
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