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Washington, July 20 (EFE) .- The US Space Agency (NASA) is finalizing these days the launch of an investigation that will be closer than any other of the Sun, reported the institution today. [19659003] The Parker Probe, named in honor of Eugene Parker, the astrophysicist who developed supersonic solar wind theory, will be launched from Cape Canaveral, in the state from Florida (USA), from August 6th. , according to a statement from the agency
The mission will approach 6 million kilometers from the solar surface at a speed that will reach 200 kilometers per second in a mission in which it will badyze the behavior of the star to the Once at a distance and in
It will be the first time that a mission enters the solar corona, a region that reaches temperatures well above the surface of the "king of the stars".
In this sense, Alex Young, NASA's scientific expert, recalled that "they have been" studying the Sun for decades and now "will go" where the action is. "
The project will attempt to shed light on the influences of the Sun, as well as secrets that only astrophysical theory has dared to answer, such as the acceleration of solar winds. EFE
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