Aug
21

How can you touch the sun without melting?

Smithsonian scientists have joined NASA and others to do something incredible: launch a solar probe and have it enter the sun’s atmosphere without melting.

Probe flying toward sun

An artistic rendering of the Parker Solar Probe in the sun’s corona. (Image courtesy NASA / Johns Hopkins)

Learn how they did it from Smithsonian Insider.

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Posted: 21 August 2018
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