This Probe Is Inside The Sun's Atmosphere

This probe is inside the sun's atmosphere. After years of spiraling closer to our star, NASA's Parker Solar Probe broke its own record by flying just 4.51 million miles from the sun’s surface - which sounds far, but it’s within the sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona. The goal is to study eruptions like solar wind, flares, and coronal mass ejections, all of which launch magnetized particles towards us on Earth.

Once the probe reaches its predetermined final orbit, the mission will be complete. But what happens to it then? We asked a NASA scientist on the project and he said that we can expect quite a number of additional passages after the final mission, but eventually we won’t be able to control the probe anymore and it will likely become part of the near-Sun dust environment.

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[sickomode]

NASA is like an introvert kid trying to get closer to its crush but severely burning itself in the process 💀

[insertsarcasm]

Having a solar probe and not calling it ICARUS is honestly such a missed opportunity

[Salty_Legionnaire]

This goes against Daedalus's instructions to Icarus.

[tomlaw]

If the probe was travelling from earth to the moon at 430, 000mph it would take 33 mins 33 seconds roughly. Wow that thing is moving.

[mungolianbeef]

Fast enough to go from NY to London in 30 seconds. That’s insane.

[SpectreInk]

The way she delivers and articulates her narrative is so immersive.

[AlEbnereza]

I can’t even imagine how all that electronic equipment is surviving the barrage of violent destructive vectors coming off the sun… mind blowing.

[garyandrewranford]

Your enthusiasm, along with your bubbly character makes these videos very watchable 😊

[theviscount]

Philly to DC is the wildest choice you couldve made for a quick reference lmao

[stevethach]

I used to be an aerospace engineer and my colleagues did some orbital mechanics for this launch!

We all also put our names into a usb drive to burn in the sun lol

[TGSG.]

i wonder how this will effect my mario 64 speedrun

[danielramin]

This is so exciting!! I love optimistic sconce and tech stories from Cleo Abram!

[yonkersz]

When you cleared your throat to read out a quote I was fully prepared to hear you impersonate a deep man's voice.

[sanjayshah]

I love this woman's enthusiasm and mannerisms and the way she talks and ...just and...

[jameswilliams]

That begins the probe’s evil villain arc. It comes back 20 years later and it’s pissed. 😂

[Fantic]

Love the pics of Solar Plasma ... and your enthusiasm is infectious!!

[eesanta]

I have no idea how much 430000mph is and I also have no idea how far philly and dc is.

[vittoriom]

Ehy I think your channel is probably the best scientific divulgation channel of all, but may I ask you to write the respective numbers you say in the International sistem ( like you did for farheneit and Celsius in this one), for someone out of the US and really into this things it would make it easier to visualize the speed you were talking about in the video, love your content!

[williamishizaki]

Hey Cleo, would you consider doing a “how I film my videos”?
Love your content and would like to learn more about the BTS

[billreal]

Hopefully it will last longer than expected; just like the Voyager probes.