The Parker Solar Probe will use seven Venus flybys over nearly seven years to gradually shrink its orbit around the Sun, coming as close as 3.7 million miles (5.9 million km), well within the orbit of Mercury. Closest approaches (called perihelia) will happen in late December 2024 and the first half of 2025 before the mission ends. Credit: NASA 1 posted on
03/25/2018 3:00:17 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
it will pass through the Sun’s outer atmosphere called the corona and be subjected to temperatures around 2,500°F (1,377°C).
Wouldn't it be better to go at night?
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
The size of a small car, you say?
7 posted on
03/25/2018 3:11:24 PM PDT by
alancarp
(George Orwell was an optimist.)
To: SunkenCiv
8 posted on
03/25/2018 3:11:39 PM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: BenLurkin
Will it have air-conditioning?
9 posted on
03/25/2018 3:15:28 PM PDT by
Libloather
(Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
To: BenLurkin
The photino birds will be pissed ...
13 posted on
03/25/2018 3:54:40 PM PDT by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: BenLurkin
...it will pass through the Sun’s outer atmosphere called the corona and be subjected to temperatures around 2,500°F (1,377°C).
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Did they pack the sunblock?
To: BenLurkin
It’s a tad warmer than quoted—several million C equivalent. Maybe they were thinking photosphere?
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