Here Comes The Sun
On Friday a spacecraft dived towards the Sun. It reached perihelion the closes point to the sun on 24th December when it was a mere six million km from the sun. It survived. This is the Parker Solar Probe specifically designed to probe the outermost layers of the Sun. It dived into what is known as the solar corona, the outermost atmosphere of the Sun. There the temperatures can reach phenomenal levels. So how did it survive? The Parker Solar…
