A red-hot voyage to the sun is about to bring us closer to the star than ever before.

 

一艘飞向太阳的航天器将让我们前所未有地靠近这颗恒星。
 

 

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will hurtle through the sizzling solar atmosphere and come within just 3.8 million miles of the surface.

 

This spacecraft is about to make history as it embarks¹ on a mission that will bring us closer to the sun than ever before.

 

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly within 4 million miles of the sun.

 

While that still sounds like a long way away - it's all a matter of perspective.

 

"If you think about the Earth and the sun being on a metre stick we're actually getting within four centimetres of the sun on that edge," says Betsy Congdon, lead engineer for Parker Solar Probe's heat shield.

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