Indian space agency ISRO has created a stir in the world by launching XPoSat satellite on the very first day of the new year. Through this mission, India will try to find out about distant things like black holes and supernovae. India has become the second country in the world after America to go on such a mission. The matter does not end here, 2024 will be a year that will create a stir in the world in space. American space agency NASA announced that this year its spacecraft Parker Solar Probe will land on the Sun blazing like fire. Then its speed will be 195 kilometers per second. The revelations made by NASA are surprising.
Distance from New York to London in just 30 seconds
NASA Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist Dr Nour Raouafi, while talking to BBC, also revealed the date when a spacecraft is going to land on the Sun for the first time. He said, Parker Solar Probe will reach closest to the Sun on December 24, 2024. No man-made object has ever come this close. At that time the speed of the spacecraft will be 195 kilometers per second or 435,000 miles per hour. You can understand the speed of Parker Solar Probe in such a way that the distance from New York to London will be covered in just 30 seconds. It will be like landing on the Sun. Because no machine that can go to that level has been made yet. Parker Solar Probe is currently 61 lakh kilometers away from the boiling surface of the Sun.
This case is like landing on the moon
Dr. Noor Raoufi, a scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, said this event is comparable to the 1969 moon landing and will be a major achievement for all humanity. Parker’s such high speed will be due to the gravity of the Sun. NASA launched this mission in 2018. Its purpose is to pass very close to the Sun repeatedly, so that information can be found about it. This time when it will be closest to the Sun, the temperature will be more than 1,400°C. This time the objective of Parker Solar Probe is to go inside the Sun’s coverage area and quickly measure the temperature and return.
