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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.
Eugene parker is an astrophysicist at the university of chicago.
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.
The parker probe is the first nasa spacecraft to be named after a living person.
Nasa s parker solar probe will be the first ever mission to touch the sun.
The spacecraft will get seven times closer to the sun than any probe ever has.
The parker solar probe abbreviated psp.
Parker solar probe will swoop to within four million miles of the sun s surface facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.
See images of nasa s parker solar probe mission which the agency plans to launch in july 2018.
On july 16th the european space agency and nasa unveiled the closest images of the sun ever taken captured by the solar orbiter spacecraft that launched in february 2020.
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 european space agency and nasa unveiled the first images captured by the 1 5 billion solar orbiter spacecraft thursday stunning photos.
Parker solar probe will swoop to within 4 million miles of the sun s surface facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.
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.