Solar probes that break records.

A gravitational nudge from Venus is what NASA's Parker Solar Probe received on August 21 as it passed 4,003 kilometers from the fiery Venusian surface.

That was the sixth, of the seven Venus gravitational assists planned by the Parker mission, to make passes closer and closer to the Sun, the next one will be on September 27 and it will mark a new record in terms of distance from the Sun, since the The ship will pass only 7 million 300,000 kilometers from the Sun and it will also be a record for how much speed a spacecraft will have since the Parker will travel at 635,369 kilometers per hour.

At that speed it could go from the earth to the moon and back in just an hour and a half, or travel from New York to Madrid in 32 seconds or save the whole world in a Quicksilver or flash fire, but Parker Solar Probes are not He does it to break records, he does it so that we can better understand the sun, unravel its mysteries and predict space weather in advance, something that is increasingly essential for our electronics-based technology, for our satellites and of course for the exploration and colonization of the planet. space.

The other solar exploration craft that has made headlines is the European space agency and NASA's solar orbiter, as it may have found the answer to something that puzzled scientists.

Where the solar wind arises, the solar wind is made up of charged particles known as plasma that continuously escape from the sun, propagate outward through interplanetary space colliding with everything in their path.

When an intense discharge of solar wind collides with the Earth's magnetic field in auroras, it has long been known that the densest discharges—plasma clouds called coronal mass ejections—are ejected by flares, which are powerful related explosions. with sunspots.

Researchers analyzing data from the solar orbiter have discovered a multitude of tiny jets of material escaping from the sun's outer atmosphere, each jet lasting between 20 seconds and ejecting plasma at about 100 kilometers per second, those jets could be the source of solar wind so sought after.

You have to be careful with this ship because the waves are the orbiter approaches the sun every five months and those passes will be able to see the poles of the sun, something that we cannot see from the earth and about which we know very little, there was a ship 30 years ago, the so-called Ulysses who was able to capture a little of them but from very far away, about 150 million kilometers.

The solar orbiter is equipped with much more advanced technology and will come much closer to the sun, to about 41 million kilometers.