A Nasa spacecraft is attempting to make history with the closest-ever approach to the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe is plunging into our star's outer atmosphere, enduring brutal temperatures and extreme radiation.
Genius move on behalf of Nasa to time this rendezvous to happen during mid-winter, when the sun’s at its coolest!
…But it would have been an even more genius move to make it happen at night.
Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
I'd have thought it would be best at dawn before the sun had time to warm up properly!