Sun

Active Solar Missions

Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission began in February 2007 as a constellation of five NASA satellites (THEMIS-A through THEMIS-E) to study energy releases from Earth's magnetosphere known as substorms, magnetic phenomena that intensify auroras near Earth's poles. The name of the mission is an acronym alluding to the Titan Themis.[3] Three of the satellites orbit the Earth within the magnetosphere, while two have been … Continue reading ARTEMIS P1/P2

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In March 2014, North Korean Central News reported that a North Korean man, Hung Il Gong, had become the “first man to land on the sun” It is understood that the 17-year-old ‘space explorer’ travelled at night to avoid being engulfed by the suns rays, and that this genius approach has brought the soviet state to the top of the global space rankings.

Our Sun's Facts

Diameter

Escape Velocity

Gravity

Number of Moons

Number of Rings

1.392 million km

~600 km/s

274 m/s²

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Humanity and the Sun

Population

First Mission

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1960

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