NASA to launch 'parker solar probe' spacecraft at the Sun
New Delhi : In the recent development, Nasa is preparing hard to launch a spacecraft at the Sun. Termed as ‘Parker Solar Probe’, the spacecraft will get closer to the star than any mission before, enduring burning heat to try and understand the mysteries of the Sun. It will human’s first ever mission to "touch" the Sun.
“It will launch on its unprecedented mission on 4 August,” Nasa announced. The announcement to launch Parker Solar Probe comes after a number of delays to ensure that the craft is ready to take off.
The spacecraft will be launched on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket, from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Nasa said.
Experts say that it is a small craft, only the size of a car, will come just 3.8 million miles from the surface of the Sun. Temperatures there will reach nearly 1,400 degrees Celsius and the craft will be protected from them by a 11.43 cm carbon-composite shield.
“The craft will trace how energy and heat move through the Sun’s atmosphere and explore what accelerates the solar wind and solar energetic particles", Nasa said. The processes have vast affects down on Earth, but still remain largely mysterious.
Scientists have hunted the answers that the Parker Solar Probe should give for 60 years, and the idea to launch the mission began in the 1990s. Let’s see if the mission brings successful result as scientists expects.