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(VIDEO) How humans touch the Sun for the first time, making history
The world has been in shock by the outcome of last week discovery where a group of NASA scientists, humans touched the sun for the first.
The world has been in shock by the outcome of last week discovery where a group of NASA scientists, humans touched the sun for the first time, making history.
Recall that on 28 April 2021, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew into and through the solar corona, the upper atmosphere of the Sun. Not only did it live to tell the tale – proving the efficacy of Parker’s high-tech heat shielding – it took in situ measurements, giving us a wealth of never-before-seen data on the heart of our Solar System.
“Not only does this milestone provide us with deeper insights into our Sun’s evolution and its impacts on our Solar System, but everything we learn about our own star also teaches us more about stars in the rest of the Universe.”
“Flying so close to the Sun, Parker Solar Probe now senses conditions in the magnetically dominated layer of the solar atmosphere – the corona – that we never could before,” said astrophysicist Nour Raouafi, Parker project scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
“We see evidence of being in the corona in magnetic field data, solar wind data, and visually in images. We can actually see the spacecraft flying through coronal structures that can be observed during a total solar eclipse.”
More so, the announcement was made at the 2021 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans on Tuesday, and research from the solar milestone has been published in the Physical Review Letters.
Many science fans were freaking out when NASA confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe had become the first spacecraft ever to ‘touch the Sun’ back in April.
However, if you thought that what you just read is mind-blowing, that humans touched the sun, hang on to your seat, because there’s actually time-lapse footage of the spacecraft’s view as it swoops into the Sun’s corona – and it’s one of the most spectacular things we’ve seen in a very long time.
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