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Parker Solar Probe Mission Launches to Touch the Sun - NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission launched Aug. 12 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will be the first to fly directly through the Sun’s corona – the hazardous region of intense heat and solar radiation in the Sun’s atmosphere that is visible during an eclipse. It will gather data that could help answer questions about solar physics that have puzzled scientists for decades. Gathering information about fundamental

Sun vs Solar Parker Probe 👺👹 #sun #earth #NASA #astronomy #space #scienceofinfinity | Science Of Infinity

We've been studying the Sun from afar for decades, and now we're going where the action is. Parker Solar Probe launches this summer to get closer to the Sun than any spacecraft has ever gone. Throughout its seven-year mission, its four suites of instruments will send back invaluable data that will help scientists answer foundational questions about the Sun, like: Why is the Sun's corona so much hotter than its surface? How is the solar wind accelerated to supersonic speeds? And what drives solar

Parker Solar Probe's first three close approaches to the sun. | Cosmoknowledge