TED-Ed
How close can we actually get to the Sun?
2025 • E52 Jun 26, 2025 6m
In 2021, the Parker Solar Probe achieved its mission to touch the Sun, skimming through its outermost atmosphere. Since then, it’s carved closer and closer paths, but probing deeper into the corona— without melting, exploding, or falling into the Sun— is a monumental engineering challenge. Is it possible? Explore the obstacles of the mission and how it could unlock the mysteries of our star.
Directed by Igor Ćorić, Artrake Studio.
Directed by Igor Ćorić, Artrake Studio.