Probe touches the Sun's atmosphere

[IAmTheWalrus]

https://news.sky.com/story/nasa-probe-touches-the-...

Impressive..

[Beati Dogu]

Yes it’s quite an interesting little spacecraft. More on it here:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

NASA video about its latest encounter with Sun:

https://youtu.be/LkaLfbuB_6E

Edited by Beati Dogu on Friday 17th December 00:47

[IAmTheWalrus]

There is an episode in the TV show star trek the next generation in which a scientist goes and flies it through the edge of a star. Kind of interesting how you see stuff in Sci fi end up real, pc tablets for example were in Sci fi in the early 80s

[Ozzie Dave]

2001 - with an early Ipad, this was used as part of the google v apple sagas to show the Ipad was not a new idea,

[IAmTheWalrus]

What year was that with a working tablet? I'm pretty sure Microsoft had pc tablets in the 90s but they didn't really take off. Pda phones promptly took over the market for mobile computing.

[CarCrazyDad]

That's cool

Although this stands out for me

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The probe, which is orbiting around the sun at the moment, is going to make its closest final approach in 2025 - taking it within 3.83 million miles of the sun's surface.

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So the atmosphere is 3.83 million miles high (at least) - that's mental

[IAmTheWalrus]

Well that's one tall atmosphere.. Mind you it's a a tad bigger than the earth. I wonder if the human race will make it out in the distant future when it is dying and expanding over the world..