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NASA`s Parker Solar Probe Mission will travel through the sun`s atmosphere to study about the sun facing extreme heat and radiation conditions and your name will travel along with it in a memory card in the Parker Solar Probe Spacecraft.
What is Parker Solar Probe Mission?
- NASA`s first ever mission to tough the Sun
- The space craft called Parker Solar Probe which is a size of a small car will travel in the Sun`s atmosphere
- The Sun`s atmosphere is about 4 million miles from earth
- Mission to be launched in 2018
- The mission will provide first ever close-up view of the Sun
Parker Solar Probe Deadline: Last date to submit your name – APRIL 27th 2018
Parker Solar Probe-Send Your Name to the Sun: How to submit your name?
NASA is inviting people across the globe to send their name to the sun. Your name will be included in a memory card that will fly aboard Parker Solar Probe spacecraft.
STEP 1: Visit http://go.nasa.gov/HotTicket to go to the registration form
STEP 2: Provide your details such as firstname, lastname and email id then click on the submit button
STEP 3: A verification email will be sent to you with the further submission details, click on the verification link
STEP 4: Click on the confirm submission button to confirm your entry
STEP 5: Download your Hot Ticket / VIP Pass, Parker Solar Probe-a mission to touch the sun certificate
Parker Solar Probe Mission Objectives:
- To study and know more about the Sun
- To know effects of heliophysics
- To study how heat and energy moves from the solar corona
- to explore what accelerates the solar wind as well as solar energetic particles
Parker Solar Probe Mission Highlights:
- A space craft of small car size will be used for the mission
- The spacecraft and instruments will be protected from the Sun’s heat by a 4.5-inch-thick carbon-composite shield
- State-of-the-art heat shield will keep the spacecraft at the room temperature
- The mission is named in honour of astrophysicist Eugene Parker
- Launch Window: July 31 – Aug. 19, 2018
- Launch Site: NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida
- Launch Vehicle: Delta IV-Heavy with Upper Stage
- Parker Solar Probe: Humanity’s First Visit to a Star
- Parker Solar Probe-Humanity’s First Visit to Our Star – parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu
- Public Invited to Come Aboard NASA’s First Mission to Touch the Sun
- PSP more information nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe
