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Parker solar probe real images.
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.
Since it launched last year nasa s parker solar probe has made three dives toward the sun as it reached the fastest speed ever clocked by a human built vehicle.
Nasa s parker solar probe launched a year ago on a mission to touch the sun.
The sun is out of frame to the left.
When the parker solar probe reaches the sun we can expect images of a very different kind.
Since that fiery early morning liftoff with the mission s namesake eugene parker in attendance the probe has made.
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.
See images of nasa s parker solar probe mission which the agency plans to launch in july 2018.
The faint grid pattern near the center of the image is an artifact of the way the image is created.
Scientists released the mission.
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.
Basically wispr will take pictures of coronal mass ejections cmes jets and other ejecta from the sun.
The parker solar probe abbreviated psp.
Nasa s parker solar probe will be the first ever mission to touch the sun.