How did the earth come to be? NASA's new spacecraft will open secrets
To reach the sun, the spacecraft has to go through a temperature of 1377 degrees Celsius. It has a thermal protection system. Protecting spacecraft and equipment from the scorching heat of the sun will create a four-and-a-half inch thick shield made of carbon.
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However, NASA clarified that there are many different scientific rules and logics behind not melting a spacecraft. In the language of science, temperature and heat are two different things. How hot any object will be, depends on how much temperature and how many things are in the surrounding atmosphere. If the atmosphere is empty the object will heat up less. There are also very few objects in space. So the spacecraft will be relatively much warmer. Not so much what happens as ordinary people understand.
