Mission to the Sun (2019 TV Movie)
5/10
Even the worst-written documentary about a solar probe can be worth watching
26 April 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Even the worst-written documentary about a solar probe can be worth watching; even the dumbest things the screenwriter can get really smart people to say can be worth hearing. And the relevant graphics are quite good. So try to ignore the sensationalist digressions: When the narrator compares planetary navigation to a sniper, sure enough we get footage of a guy with a gun. When a scientist compares the temperature behind the heat shield to a day at the beach, we get footage of scantily-clad and not particularly attractive beachgoers.

Spoiler: Though the narration mentions the first encounter with the sun in the present tense, it mentions no data obtained by the mission.
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