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Scientist from Colombia working on NASAs 1st mission to the sun
written by Taran Volckhausen June 1, 2017
Colombian scientist Juan Carlos Martinez is on the team working to send NASA’s Parker Solar Probe to explore the sun’s atmosphere during the 2018 summer.
The unmanned 10-foot-high probe mission will come closer to the sun and withstand more heat and radiation than any human-designed space craft has ever done before, announced officials on Wednesday at the University of Chicago.
In order to ensure the space craft doesn’t fail in its orbit within 3.7 million miles of the sun, the team working on the mission will have to answer some very specific questions.
Juan Carlos Martinez, Assistant Research Physicist at Space Sciences Laboratory in Berkeley, California, will form part of the team working on one of the four instruments that will be used to conduct measurements. The instrument he is working on is known as the FIELDS suite.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombian-scientist-works-nasas-first-mission-sun/
