Remarkableriots Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Quote NASA is poised to launch a $1.5 billion spacecraft on a brutally hot journey toward the Sun, offering scientists the closest-ever view of our strange and mysterious star. After the Parker Solar Probe blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 11, it will become the first spacecraft ever to fly through the Sun's scorching atmosphere, known as the corona. Understanding how the corona works will help scientists anticipate dangerous space weather storms, which can disrupt the power grid on Earth. "It's of fundamental importance for us to be able to predict space weather much the way we predict weather on Earth," explained Alex Young, a solar scientist at NASA. The corona is a "very strange, unfamiliar environment for us." Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-nasa-poised-sun-skimming-spaceship.html#jCp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 NASA is so fucking cool. It's one of the few remaining symbols of america that's positive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarSolo Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Trump: “Can we get them to land on the sun at nighttime?” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 This is pretty cool but the movie is overrated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 So our first contact is going to be with the Cardassians? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Very cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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