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Starting in the month of August, the US Aerospace Authority will launch a probe self-sized Parker Solar Probe car, which will explore the Sun from a record distance

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The station measures 1 x 3 x 2.3 meters, any other object manufactured by the man – at a distance of only 6.2 million miles from the surface.

All the land to this And send the device in such a violent environment – an extremely ambitious goal. "

At the most critical point of the trajectory, the surface of the shield is heated to nearly 1400 degrees and the maximum speed at the edge of the solar corona is about 725 000 km / h. to approach the surface of the sun was Helios 2, which was 27 million miles from the star in 1976.

The cost of launching Parker Solar Probe is $ 1.5 billion, the first step of the program of the American Aerospace Agency With a Star. "[1 9659003] Scientists believe that the launch of Parker Solar Probe in 2018 will provide new data on solar activity and will greatly contribute to our ability to predict major events that affect life on Earth.

In particular, one of the tasks of the flight is to solve a mystery: why the outer layer of the star's atmosphere is much hotter than its surface – respectively 1.7 million and 5500 degrees Celsius

This is the first mission of NASA, Eugene Parker, an American astronomer whose main work – study the physics of plasma and solar power Sunshine wind

The launch of the rocket Delta IV with a 555-kilogram sunny probe will take place on August 4 from the SLC-37 launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Source: NASA