From London to New York in 30 seconds, or Philly to D.C. in one second. Four hundred thirty thousand miles per hour. This is how fast NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is traveling around… the Sun!
It’s close enough to travel through a solar eruption, if one were to occur. As one writer puts it, this would be like “a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave.”
The well-insulated probe is well inside the orbit of Mercury, only 3.8 million miles from the surface of our closest star, having to withstand temperatures 500 times hotter than the hottest day we experience here on earth.
And it’s getting pretty hot here on earth. Thanks to the mindset and inclinations of the incoming administration, it’s gonna keep getting hotter.
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