See images of nasa s parker solar probe mission which the agency plans to launch in july 2018.
Parker solar probe pictures of 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.
The probe recently came within 15 million miles of the sun and it s now just two weeks.
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.
The spacecraft will get seven times closer to the sun than any probe ever has.
Nasa s parker solar probe will be the first ever mission to touch the sun.
Nasa s parker solar probe launched a year ago on a mission to touch the sun.
In 2018 the parker solar probe was still under construction in a clean room near kennedy space center.
Since that fiery early morning liftoff with the mission s namesake eugene parker in attendance the probe has made.
Parker solar probe will swoop to within 4 million miles of the sun s surface facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.