NASA’s Speedy Parker Probe To 'Touch' Sun

Credit: Parker: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA’s $1.6 billion, seven-year Parker Solar Probe mission was developed for the closest-ever reconnaissance of the Sun. It includes observations to help explain the high temperatures of the solar corona, or outer atmosphere; the genesis and acceleration of the solar wind and a dynamic...

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