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