NASA, ULA Launch Parker Solar Probe on Historic Journey to Touch Sun
It's not actually going to "touch the sun" - its closest approach will be 3.8 million miles away. Which sounds scoff-worthy, but you have to rearrange your thinking when considering the infinite vastness that is the universe. And we're just staying in our own little dinky ass solar system.
All you need to know about the Parker Solar Probe
At closest approach, Parker Solar Probe hurtles around the Sun at approximately 430,000 mph (700,000 kph). That's fast enough to get from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., in one second.
Think how happy you'll be when they figure out how to do this on Earth so you can go see your grandchildren in Paris in about a minute.
It's stuff like this that makes me wish I could live forever so I can see it play out.
It's not actually going to "touch the sun" - its closest approach will be 3.8 million miles away. Which sounds scoff-worthy, but you have to rearrange your thinking when considering the infinite vastness that is the universe. And we're just staying in our own little dinky ass solar system.
All you need to know about the Parker Solar Probe
At closest approach, Parker Solar Probe hurtles around the Sun at approximately 430,000 mph (700,000 kph). That's fast enough to get from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., in one second.
Think how happy you'll be when they figure out how to do this on Earth so you can go see your grandchildren in Paris in about a minute.
It's stuff like this that makes me wish I could live forever so I can see it play out.