NASA Probe Set to Touch the Sun and TDIH - “Twas the Night Before Christmas"

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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On Christmas Eve NASA aims to touch our Sun in hopes to learn more about how it works and the source of its high-energy solar particles. Plus, on This Day in History, we look back one of the most famous holiday poems of all time - “Twas the Night Before Christmas". Watch: NASA Experts Discuss Mission to 'Touch the Sun' with Parker Solar Probe - Newsweek NASA is set to touch sun on Christmas Eve | firstcoastnews.com Parker Solar Probe - NASA Science It's been a hell of a year, and we're going to end it by pinging a spacecraft travelling at 430,000 mph off the Sun in a presumed affront to the laws of the universe | PC Gamer The Story Behind the Most Famous Christmas Poem of All | Columbia Magazine Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.8	I'm Regger Rizu alongside Marcus Paff on today's episode, NASA aims to touch the sun on Christmas
1:18.3	Eve. Plus, on this day in history, we look back at the most famous Christmas poem of all.
1:23.7	Twas the night before Christmas. That's all coming up on cool stuff.
1:28.1	Christmas Eve is going to bring us a groundbreaking moment in space exploration as NASA's Parker Solar
1:34.2	probe prepares for an unprecedented counter with the sun on December 24th.
1:39.0	The spacecraft, which was launched in 2018, will come within 3.86 million miles of the sun, closer than any
1:46.1	human-made object has ever ventured. Last week, Dr. Noura Rofi, a NASA scientist and project
1:52.3	lead for the mission, said, quote, this is something scientists have dreamed about since
1:56.2	1958. For the first time in history, we have a spacecraft flying closer to the sun than ever before.
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