Nasa s parker solar probe will be the first ever mission to touch the sun.
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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.
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.
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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 will swoop to within four million miles of the sun s surface facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.
The parker solar probe abbreviated psp.
It will approach to within 9 86 solar radii 6 9 million km or 4 3 million miles from the center of the sun and by 2025 will travel at closest approach as fast as 690 000 km h.
See images of nasa s parker solar probe mission which the agency plans to launch in july 2018.
Nasa s parker solar probe launched on a mission to touch the sun on aug.
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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.
With the parker solar probe scientists hope to learn more about the sun s turbulent corona.
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.
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The spacecraft will get seven times closer to the sun than any probe ever has.
Since that fiery early morning liftoff with the mission s namesake eugene parker in attendance the probe has made.
Nasa s parker solar probe launched a year ago on a mission to touch the sun.