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The Parker Solar Probe
It's the fastest man-made object ever built... travelling at some 430,000 miles per hour... in the last 6 years, the team that launched it has been preparing for another first... a dive into the Sun's atmosphere. The metric ton of the probe houses a relatively small payload (a little over a hundred pounds.)
All the extra mass was needed to get to the point where the probe would actually perform an amazing task... Diving into the within just 3.8 million miles of the solar surface... all in search of answers to lingering questions about the solar wind. It took 6 years to get the orbit just right to enable this part of the project... expecting temperatures as high as 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit. The engineering of the probe was very meticulous using unusual configurations of special equipment made out of Titanium, Zirconium, Molybdenum with some niobium wiring encased in lab-grown sapphire crystal tubes.
I thought it might be something to look into... for those keen on the study of the actual origins of solar wind...
![[Image: OTc4MTk1QzlDMA]](https://imgs.search.brave.com/yyOkR2WJ9c-6M0sS7zHhFDYcFgqmbky00nbNixfMotk/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cu/a2VubmVkeXNwYWNl/Y2VudGVyLmNvbS8t/L21lZGlhL0ROQy9L/U0NWQy9FdmVudC1J/bWFnZXMvU3BlY2lh/bC1FdmVudHMvUGFy/a2VyLVNvbGFyLVBy/b2JlLUFjdGl2aXRp/ZXMvUGFya2VyU29s/YXJQcm9iZUFjdGl2/aXRpZXNfOTAweDYw/MC5hc2h4P2g9NjAw/Jnc9OTAwJmxhPWVu/Jmhhc2g9OUUwQzJG/NTI3MDY3MkZBNjlC/NjAyNTI3NEMwOTc0/OTc4MTk1QzlDMA)
It's the fastest man-made object ever built... travelling at some 430,000 miles per hour... in the last 6 years, the team that launched it has been preparing for another first... a dive into the Sun's atmosphere. The metric ton of the probe houses a relatively small payload (a little over a hundred pounds.)
All the extra mass was needed to get to the point where the probe would actually perform an amazing task... Diving into the within just 3.8 million miles of the solar surface... all in search of answers to lingering questions about the solar wind. It took 6 years to get the orbit just right to enable this part of the project... expecting temperatures as high as 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit. The engineering of the probe was very meticulous using unusual configurations of special equipment made out of Titanium, Zirconium, Molybdenum with some niobium wiring encased in lab-grown sapphire crystal tubes.
I thought it might be something to look into... for those keen on the study of the actual origins of solar wind...
