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.
Nasa parker solar probe mission.
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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Parker solar probe will swoop to within 4 million miles of the sun s surface facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.
4 four new papers describe what scientists have learned from its unprecedented exploration and what they look forward to learning next.
Nasa s parker solar probe will be the first ever mission to touch the sun.
This is the first nasa mission named for a living researcher and it s humanity s first mission to explore the sun up close.
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Nasa s parker solar probe.
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.
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.