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It is not possible to land on the sun as it has no actual surface, it is a ball of plasma (hot ionized gas) all the way through. Via the solar wind and solar flares the sun actually reaches far beyond the planets and into the Oort Cloud, if not further. The 2 Voyager spacecraft are just leaving the outer reaches of the Sun's ball of plasma now. The temperature of this plasma is as follows:

  1. core, 15.7 MK
  2. radiative zone, 7 MK to 2 MK
  3. convective zone, 2 MK to 5800 K
  4. photosphere, 5800 K (this is often mistakenly called the surface, but it is just the layer we see)
  5. temperature minimum, 4100 K
  6. chromosphere, 4100 K to 20000 K
  7. transition region, 20000 K to 1 MK
  8. corona, 1 MK to 20 MK
  9. heliosphere, supersonic solar wind and solar flares (all the planets, etc. are in this part of the sun)
  10. heliosheath, solar wind begins slowing here
  11. heliopause, this is the point where the solar wind slows to subsonic speeds
  12. heliotail, the sun's gases merge into the galaxy's gases here
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