Illustration of NASA’s Parker Photo voltaic Probe
NASA GSFC/CIL/Brian Monroe
In lower than two weeks, a spacecraft will cross via the environment of our nearest star as a part of its mission to “contact” the solar.
“On Christmas Eve of this yr, the Parker Photo voltaic Probe would be the closest human-made object ever to a star,” Nour Rawafi at Johns Hopkins College mentioned at a gathering of the American Geophysical Union in Washington DC on 10 December. “We’re in the mean time we’ve been ready for for practically 60 years.”
