How Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?
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How Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?

B1IntermediateNovember 13, 202617 min
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The Sun, an entity worshipped as a god throughout time and across cultures. The source of all life and sustenance for our little blue space rock and also a force of unthinkable destructive power. But soon humanity will reach out its collective hand and come closer to touching the sun

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than we ever have before with the launch of the Parker Solar Probe. NASA put humans on the moon, sent probes throughout and even beyond the solar system, and drove a minivan-sized rover across the surface of Mars. And now NASA will once again attempt the impossible, reaching for the one place in the solar system

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we've never dared approach. The Parker Solar Probe will fly within a hair's breadth of the sun itself. Will NASA succeed where Icarus failed? The Sun, a vast ball of incandescent gas, 100 times Earth's diameter, powered by the

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