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Parker solar probe images of 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.
At its closest approach solar orbiter will come within 26 million miles of the sun well within the orbit of mercury.
That includes nasa s other sun faring spacecraft the parker solar probe which launched in august 2018 on a quest to study the sun s scorching hot atmosphere.
Basically wispr will take pictures of coronal mass ejections cmes jets and other ejecta from 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.
The gif below shows actual data from nasa s solar and terrestrial relations observatory ahead stereo a spacecraft along with the location of parker solar probe as it flies through the sun s.
Parker solar probe will swoop to within 4 million miles of the sun s surface facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.
Scientists released the mission.
Nasa s parker solar probe launched a year ago on a mission to touch the sun.
Parker solar probe acquired the image above the first photo from inside the sun s outer atmosphere or corona the part of the sun we see in photos of total solar eclipses when the craft.
The parker solar probe has.
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