NASA’s new spacecraft will travel within 26 MILES of the sun in order to gather data that will help scientist better predict solar storms

Dailymail.com ^ | 01/28/2020 | Stacy Liberatore

[Ken H]

Same distance as Santa Catalina.

[beethovenfan]

To keep from burning up, it’ll go there at night.

[Paul R.]

Even at 26 million miles...

Your post gave me reason to pull this up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kesio4k-dMU

Somehow, playing it, that tune then seemed appropriate as a requiem for the 9 people on Kobe Bryant’s helicopter, and most anyone else who’s passed in an aircraft that’s come down, too.

(Sorry to wander OT!)

[Reily]

Goes at night!

[Reily]

This

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_(2007_film)

A scientifically ignorant about the sun film. Earth expedition to turn the sun back on with a bunch of H bombs. However if you can get past that (Its hard but I managed!) Its a good psychological thriller!

[JaguarXKE]

Me thinks the headline means 26 MILLION miles, not 26 miles.

[al_c]

The article at the link says 26 million miles.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I7zMKptjRs

[Windflier]

I don’t see how any man made object can survive a 26 mile brush with the sun. Twenty-six thousand miles, perhaps.

[Billthedrill]

I thought that was Mars?

Wrong turn at Albuquerque. It happens.

[vigilante2]

Nuclear fusion is in the millions of degrees. 900 is for burnt toast

[21twelve]

Thanks. I had to look it up for reference - the moon is about 240,000 miles from the earth. Mars is 184 million miles from earth.

[Technical Editor]

That’s 26 million miles, not 26 miles, for crying out loud. Please proofread your headlines, people.

[21twelve]

Oh, and Mercury is 33.5 million miles from the sun.

Only two space craft have explored Mercury.

[EEGator]

"Have you ever been to the Sun?!?...

[fidelis]

"Thanks for taking me, on a one-way trip to the Sun..."

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The number is most likely to be 26 MILLION miles.

Well, the media never were very good with space and numbers.

[yesthatjallen]

They corrected it.

I took a before and after screenshot.

[caww]

Yea, I’m thinking the same thing....the figures can’t be right.

[minnesota_bound]

Did they name the spacecraft “Icarus”?