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We will have the opportunity to understand more closely about our nearest star, making money to study for future missions with other stars outside the vast Universe.

Tonight, NASA will officially announce its Sun mission: they will launch a probe into this star's atmosphere. They call this the first mission that can 'touch the Sun'.

Mission to launch the Plus Solar Probe - Solar Probe Plus (SPP) will bring the probe to a region with a hot and hot radiation from this star, so this ship will have to different from every exploration ship we used to launch before.

The data collected will be analyzed and processed to help astronomers predict the solar storm, and unveil the mysteries surrounding our nearest star.

The ring of fire on the surface of the Sun, the small round ball on the other side is our Earth.

In 1976, a 370kg heavy research vehicle named Helios 2 approached the point 43 million kilometers from the Sun's surface to study the solar wind as well as its cosmic rays. Human technology has gone much further and depends more on a global network, a strong solar storm that can seriously damage this system. So raise a question: are we too reckless when we continue to build that connection system, when we still don't understand the risks that the Sun itself can bring?

Not only technology, but humans will also be affected by solar winds carrying particles of electricity and radiation from outer space. We also need to protect ourselves from the danger from the very thing that gives life to humanity. Therefore, researchers at NASA decided to go further than the landmark Helios 2 had set before, they needed to get closer to the Sun.

SPP flies across Venus.

It is expected that this probe will be launched in August, it will glide through Venus 7 times over a 7-year period to obtain a stable orbit, reaching a point 6 million away from the surface of the Sun. kilometer. There it will study the photosphere (photosphere) of the Sun when flying 24 circles of the ellipse around this star.

6 million kilometers is probably not nearly as great as we imagined, but that was enough for sensory systems to track the Sun's magnetic field, picking up some radiation to study without the Sun. 'baked nine'. There, the probe will face a temperature of 1,400 degrees Celsius, while keeping all internal equipment at room temperature to be able to operate.

'The mission's biggest technological breakthrough is the heat-resistant shield for ships, ' said Brad Tucker of the Australian School of Cosmology and Astrophysics, explaining how NASA does this mission. 'This protective shield will be 11.5cm thick and be made from a mixture of carbon, which can withstand temperatures near 1,400 degrees Celsius. Applying a carbon mixture really allows us to do extremely complex things. trash '.

The probe ship Solar Probe Plus SPP.

Carbon matter (such as nanotubes and graphene) currently has the potential to revolutionize our ability to manufacture spacecraft and probes. It is sturdy and tough enough to be used in extremely difficult missions such as flying around the Sun orbit like this.

Besides the heat-shield, the Sun Plus probe can also provide a water-cooling system to protect devices that measure the electric and magnetic fields, the electron temperature and the density of the internal plasma. It will also be equipped with an advanced camera to take some pictures as memories. Very rarely do we have the opportunity to travel to the Sun, right?

'Understanding the Sun's activity and predicting the weather phenomena emitted from it will be extremely important information if we plan to bring people to explore the distant universe, including how including projects such as bringing people to the Moon and Mars to live , 'Tucker told ScienceAlert.

He also added that the solar wind, which carries particles from the star, could be useful for the development of the Light Sailing technology, allowing people to travel more effectively in the Universe.

Sailing light - Lightsail is a technology still in its infancy, at least on Earth. It has the potential to revolutionize space exploration, with estimates given by researchers at NASA that they can reach Mars within 3 days.

This may be the imaginative lightsail system.

Also known as light quantum propulsion systems, light sails are powered through the momentum of photon particles - light quantum particles. They can come from sunlight or from lasers created by ourselves. This system will not need fuel, the only thing it needs to work is physics - a kind of fictional physics at the present time.

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