The parker solar probe abbreviated psp.
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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Nasa s parker solar probe.
Nasa s parker solar probe will be the first ever mission to touch the sun.
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.
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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.
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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Parker professor emeritus at the university of chicago visited the spacecraft that bears his name.