“We will be embracing a star.”
It is the fastest object ever built on Earth, capable of reaching speeds up to 430,000 mph at its closest approach to the Sun…which is required to avoid being pulled in due to enormous gravitational forces.
The spacecraft launched in 2018 and used a series of gravity-assist flybys of Venus to lower its perihelion. The final Venus flyby, on Nov. 6, set up the spacecraft for this perihelion, the closest the spacecraft will fly to the sun on its mission. It’ll continue circling the sun at this distance until at least September. Scientists hope to better understand why the corona is hundreds of times hotter than the sun’s surface and what drives the solar wind, the supersonic stream of charged particles constantly blasting away from the sun.
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