How did NASA touch the Sun without melting?
Learning Stats
مستوى CEFR
Total Words
Unique Words
الصعوبة
الترجمة (76 segments)
DownloadThe Parker Solar Probe, the fastest object ever made by human hands,
surfs the solar winds at more than 630,000 kilometers per hour.
That’s more than 500 times the speed of sound on Earth.
Its mission?
To touch the Sun— and, ideally, to avoid melting in the process.
It achieved this goal in 2021,
when the probe flew by Venus and skimmed through the corona,
the Sun’s outermost atmosphere.
Full subtitles available in the video player
Key Vocabulary (17)
A shield is a large piece of metal or wood used by soldiers to protect their bodies from weapons. In a general sense, it is anything that protects you from danger, pain, or damage.
"Example sentence using shield."
Carbon is a chemical element that exists in all living things and is a primary component of many substances like coal and diamonds. In a modern environmental context, it often refers to carbon dioxide emissions and their impact on global warming.
As an adverb at a C2 level, it denotes presence, availability, or existence within a specific vicinity or context. It is also used to indicate approximate values or to describe movement or positioning that encircles a point or lacks a specific direction.
To stop a computer program, application, or digital window from running or being visible on the screen. It can also mean to physically shut a device, such as a laptop lid.
"I close every day."
Heat refers to the quality of being hot or having a high temperature. It is commonly used to describe the warmth from the sun or the atmosphere during summertime.
"The heat is important."
Grammar in This Video
"it will endure temperatures of 1,500 degrees Celsius"
"much cooler than the outer corona"
"The Parker Solar Probe, the fastest object ever made by human hands"
"without melting, exploding, or falling directly into the Sun"
"if a spacecraft could fly within about 3 solar radii from the Sun’s surface... i..."
"would likely pick up so much speed"
