The sun-kissing spacecraft is definitely feeling the heat (but its science instruments, thankfully, are not).
. During its perihelion passes through the corona, the spacecraft can dip below 6 million miles above the sun’s surface, which is known as the photosphere.
The spacecraft is scheduled to make 24 close passes of the photosphere during its primary mission, collecting data scientists will use to improve stellar models and the ability to forecastThe photosphere has an average temperature around 10,000 degrees F , making it hundreds of times cooler than the coronal layer above, and this is something that makes scientists scratch their heads.
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