{"id":121832,"date":"2021-04-22T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T02:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/heres-how-nasas-solar-probe-is-going-to-touch-the-sun-without-melting"},"modified":"2021-04-22T19:02:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T02:02:50","slug":"heres-how-nasas-solar-probe-is-going-to-touch-the-sun-without-melting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/heres-how-nasas-solar-probe-is-going-to-touch-the-sun-without-melting","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How NASA\u2019s Solar Probe Is Going to Touch The Sun Without Melting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-how-nasas-solar-probe-is-going-to-touch-the-sun-without-melting.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In just a few weeks, NASA is due to launch one of its most ambitious projects yet. The Parker Solar Probe is going to swoop in and \u2018touch\u2019 the Sun \u2014 coming in closer to the solar surface than any probe has ever done before.<\/p>\n<p>Parker\u2019s three closest orbits will bring it within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/goddard\/parker-solar-probe-humanity-s-first-visit-to-a-star\">6.1 million kilometres (3.8 million miles)<\/a> of the Sun\u2019s surface and inside its outer atmosphere, or corona, where temperatures reach <a href=\"https:\/\/scied.ucar.edu\/solar-corona\">millions of degrees Kelvin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It does have heat shielding, and it\u2019s actually pretty wicked, but we\u2019ll get into that later. Because first, we have to address those searing temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 In just a few weeks, NASA is due to launch one of its most ambitious projects yet. The Parker Solar Probe is going to swoop in and \u2018touch\u2019 the Sun \u2014 coming in closer to the solar surface than any probe has ever done before. Parker\u2019s three closest orbits will bring it within [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}