NASA mission to 'touch' the Sun to carry over 11 lakh names
Over 11 lakh people have submitted their names to store aboard the first mission to "touch" a star. The spacecraft will go close to the Sun to probe why temperatures in Sun's atmosphere reach 10 million ÂºF while being only 10,000 ÂºF at its surface. The Parker Solar Probe is named after American physicist Eugene Parker, who theorised solar wind.