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NASA to send a robotic spacecraft for solar probe.

NASA is planning to launch a probe to study the sun’s atmosphere. The solar probe plus mission will be a robotic spacecraft that will get within 6 million km of the sun which is at a distance of 149 million km from the earth.

  • First mission for NASA.

According to researcher Aric Christian of space center that will be a fist mission for sun’s study. After all we are not able to land on a sun but it will reach up to a level where we can get 3 answers related to it.

  • What are the 3 questions.


  1. Why sun’s surface not as much hot as it’s atmosphere.
  2. How solar winds gets velocity.
  3. Why it creates tremendous amount of the energy , that is harmful.



  • Facts of consideration.

  1. Surface temperature of the sun is 5500 degree Celsius.
  2. Sun’s atmosphere temperature is 2 million degree Celsius.
  3. 11.4 cm carbon composite shield required for the spacecraft.

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