Chapter 635: "Made of Gold" is an Understatement

In the plethora of public opinions concerning the launch of satellites around the Sun, the most attention is given to the distance between the satellite and the solar surface.

One hundred thousand kilometers, that's simply too close.

If it were relative to the Earth's radius of over six thousand kilometers, a distance of one hundred thousand kilometers would still be very distant; even relative to the distance between the Earth and the Moon, it constitutes one third.

However, the Sun is indeed too immense.

The radius of the Sun alone reaches more than six hundred and ninety-five thousand kilometers, with a diameter surpassing one million three hundred and ninety thousand kilometers. In the face of such million-kilometer magnitudes, one hundred thousand kilometers is just too close; one might even say it is nearly being 'absorbed'.

When distance is merely a datum, the primary concern is that being too close to the Sun incurs a tremendous influence.