The spacecraft about the size of a small car will travel directly into the sun s atmosphere about 4 million miles from our star s surface.
Parker solar probe pictures.
Nasa s parker solar probe launched on a mission to touch the sun on aug.
11 2018 riding atop a ula delta iv heavy rocket from cape canaveral air force station in florida.
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12 2018 parker solar probe will provide new data on solar activity and make critical contributions to our ability to forecast major space weather events that impact life on earth.
Parker solar probe will swoop to within 4 million miles of the sun s surface facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.
The spacecraft will get seven times closer to the sun than any probe ever has.
The parker solar probe abbreviated psp.
Previously solar probe solar probe plus or solar probe is a nasa robotic spacecraft launched in 2018 with the mission of making observations of the outer corona of the sun.
Launching in 2018 parker solar probe will provide new data on solar activity and make critical contributions to our ability to forecast major space weather events that impact life on earth.
The probe will be able to image the solar atmosphere thanks to the parker probe s heat shield which will block most of the sun s light and protect its instruments from harmful radiation.
Nasa s parker solar probe launched a year ago on a mission to touch the sun.
How it accelerates particles and how it flings huge clouds of fiery gas outward across space.
Parker solar probe will swoop to within four million miles of the sun s surface facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.
Nasa s parker solar probe will be the first ever mission to touch the sun.
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With the parker solar probe scientists hope to learn more about the sun s turbulent corona.
Since that fiery early morning liftoff with the mission s namesake eugene parker in attendance the probe has made.