If you ’ve ever wanted to send a part of you hurtling into the Sun , this is your lucky 24-hour interval . NASA is offering you the prospect to transmit your name rocketing towards our favorite ball of flatulency aboard the Parker Solar Probe .
The $ 1.5 - billion mission will be the first - ever probe to " equal " the Sun , travel directly into its standard pressure later this class . The mission will goseven times closerto the Sun than any other man - made object , for examine its atmosphere .
It ’ll go hurtling towards the center of our solar system at speeds of 700,000 klick per hour ( 430,000 miles per hr ) . " That ’s fast enough to get from Philadelphia to Washington , DC , in one second,“NASA wrote .
Your name , if you fancy it , will be included on a memory card within the probe ’s payload , traveling at speeds antecedently unknown to any of your nametags .
The delegation will study how push and heat move through the solar corona ( the nimbus of plasma that surrounds the Sun ) . By analyse the Sun – the only star uncommitted for us to study up near – scientists also hope to learn more about star throughout the Universe . The investigation will seek to discover what accelerates solar wind and solar industrious particles , which NASA says it has sought answers to for over 60 long time .
Now with thermal engineering advances , NASA is finally able to send a probe that can withstand the immense heat .
At its near approach , the investigation will face temperatures of 1,370 ° coke ( 2,500 ° farad ) , but the probe ’s solar shields will astonishingly keep the payload ( including equipment to image the Sun ) at around room temperature . So your name will stay nerveless , do n’t worry . Unless it ’s something like " Nigel " , which has never been cool in the first place .
The initiative of place your name along for the ride , dubbed " Hot Ticket " , was launched this hebdomad byStar Trekactor and melodious legend William Shatner .
" The first - ever spacecraft to the Sun , NASA ’s Parker Solar Probe , will plunge this class on a course to orbit through the heat of our asterisk ’s corona , where temperatures are great than 1 million degrees , " Shatner said in a video launch the project .
" The ballistic capsule will also run my name to the Sun , and your name , and the gens of everyone who wants to join this ocean trip of utmost geographic expedition . "
In society to get your name aboard the probe , it really is as simple as apply . Just go toNASA ’s Parker Solar Probe websiteand enter your item before April 27 , 2018 .
