NASA Spacecraft ‘Touches Sun’ In Defining Moment For Humankind

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2024/12/24/nasa-spacecraft-touches-sun-in-defining-moment-for-humankind/

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  4. Tell me we have a clock on that thing and are watching time dilation in real time!

  5. Universe: “Hey don’t touch that yet, it is HOT”

    Humans:

  8. > Dr. Nour Raouafi, the project’s scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, equates this mission’s significance to the moon landing in 1969. “It’s the moment we have been waiting for for nearly 60 years,” he said during a media roundtable at the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting on Dec. 10, 2024.

    I didn’t even know this was something we were trying to do…

  9. When asked how they accomplished this a NASA representative stated, “We waited till it was nighttime before going to the sun”

  12. The moon is roughly ~238,000 miles away. The article states that the solar probe burned up within 3.86 million miles from the suns surface.(384,400 km/6,400,400 km)

  13. This comment section is aids. Feels like I’m in an imgur comment section.

  15. 3.86 million miles is quite a distance away to use the word “touching” imo.
    NASA spacecraft gets closest it’s ever been to the sun, which is still millions of miles away, is a more accurate title.

  16. So… this would be a good time to test if the sun amplifies signals right? =)

  18. I wouldn’t call 3.86 million miles touching. There are restraining orders with far less than that. /s

  19. Pffft North Korea landed a man on the sun (they actually claimed this on Stage TV)

  20. “Mission operators at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, will lose contact with the probe for three days and wait for a beacon tone on Dec. 27, 2024, that will confirm its survival.”
    So, we won’t know for sure if Parker was successful until Friday.

  21. Stay away from that shit there’s a giant dickhead sleeping inside that bitch and u wake him up I can’t play DMZ anymore.

  22. If NASA updates their calculations they can sling shot it around the sun and pick up some whales in 1986.

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