Nasa s parker solar probe.
Nasa parker solar probe mission.
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.
Parker professor emeritus at the university of chicago visited the spacecraft that bears his name.
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.
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Since its 2018 launch nasa s parker solar probe record holder for closest ever spacecraft to the sun has finished three of 24 planned passes through never before explored parts of the sun s atmosphere.
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 parker solar probe abbreviated psp.
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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.
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This is the first nasa mission named for a living researcher and it s humanity s first mission to explore the sun up close.