The mission will travel through the sun s atmosphere facing brutal heat and radiation conditions and your name will go along for the ride.
Nasa parker solar probe name.
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The parker solar probe abbreviated psp.
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.
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.
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.
Submit your name and it will be included in a memory card that will fly aboard parker solar probe spacecraft.
Eugene parker the first person to predict the existence of the solar wind in 1958 parker developed a theory showing how the sun s hot corona by then known to be millions of degrees fahrenheit is so hot that it overcomes the sun s gravity.
Submit your name to fly aboard the parker solar probe spacecraft.
Be a part of the first mission to touch the sun.
Nasa wants to store your name on a microchip and hurl it toward the sun aboard its parker solar probe which will depart on a historic mission to earth s favorite star.
Nasa parker solar probe.
Eugene parker mission namesake.
On may 18 2018 a memory card containing over a million names submitted by the public was installed onto nasa s parker solar probe spacecraft before its historic journey to the sun.
Grab a hot ticket to send your name into the heart of the sun nasa s incredible new venture into space will bring humanity one step closer to the stars.
Parker professor emeritus at the university of chicago visited the spacecraft that bears his name.
Nasa s parker solar probe.
Parker got a phone call from thomas zurbuchen nasa s associate administrator for the science directorate saying that nasa wanted change the name to parker solar probe.