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NASA's Curious Universe

Sun Series: Soaring Toward the Sun

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For the first time, a NASA spacecraft is flying through the Sun's atmosphere. Nour Raouafi, project scientist for Parker Solar Probe, explains why the Sun's corona is the source of one of the biggest mysteries in all of space science.

© Katie Konans Length 36 min 23 April 2024 Season 7 Episode 7 Age: 6-10 , 11plus Topics: Science , Fact , Educational , Space , Climate Country: USA Type: Episodic

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© Katie Konans Length 36 min 23 April 2024 Season 7 Episode 7 Age: 6-10 , 11plus Topics: Science , Fact , Educational , Space , Climate Country: USA Type: Episodic

Introducing NASA’s Curious Universe

Introducing NASA’s Curious Universe

This is an episodic podcast, so you can listen to it in any order, but episode one is a great place to start.

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For the first time, a NASA spacecraft is flying through the Sun's atmosphere. Nour Raouafi, project scientist for Parker Solar Probe, explains why the Sun's corona is the source of one of the biggest mysteries in all of space science. So, what does it take to build a probe that can touch the Sun—including surviving temperatures of 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit and barreling through sudden eruptions of solar plasma—and live to tell the tale? We'll also go inside the fleet of NASA spacecraft studying the Sun from many angles, including the rescue mission to save a wildly spinning observatory before it became lost in space forever.


© Katie Konans | 36 min

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