#solarprobe

US Space agency NASA has just sent the Parker Solar Probe on a path to the sun. The small spacecraft is expected to reach the sun’s atmosphere by November. After a one-day delay, the probe took off early

Nasa,s Parker #SolarProbe  will swoop within 4 million miles of the Sun's surface, facing heat and  radiation like no spacecraft before it. Learn more about this and  another mission that

How will Parker #SolarProbe be able to fly directly into the Sun’s atmosphere? A revolutionary heat shield! Discover how it will protect the spacecraft from temperatures of 2,500°F.

Dr. Eugene Parker, professor at the University of Chicago, got up-close with the spacecraft that bears his name, our Parker #SolarProbe. This is the first , and is humanity’s first mission to touch the