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a nasa spacecraft will aim straight for the sun next year and bear the name of the astrophysicist who predicted the existence of the solar wind nearly 60 years ago.
美国宇航局将于明年发射一艘直飞太阳的宇宙飞船,该飞船以一位天体物理学家的名字命名,这位天体物理学家在60年前预测到太阳风的存在。
the space agency announced wednesday that the red-hot mission would be named after eugene parker, professor 1 at the university of chicago. it's the first nasa spacecraft to be named after a researcher who is still alive, 2 the agency's science mission chief, thomas zurbuchen.
scheduled to launch next summer from 3 canaveral, the parker solar probe will fly within 4 million miles of the sun's surface -- right into the solar atmosphere. that will be 4 closer than any other spacecraft, and subject the probe to 5 heat and radiation like no other man-made structure before. the materials weren't available until now to undertake such a grueling mission.
the purpose is to study the sun's outer atmosphere and better understand how stars like ours work.
nasa spacecraft have traveled inside the orbit of mercury, the innermost planet.
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