August 16, 2018
NASA’S PARKER SOLAR PROBE IS ON ITS WAY TO ‘TOUCH’...
After years of brainstorming, and a minor delay on the day of the launch, NASA has finally sent off the Parker Solar Probe on its mission to ‘touch the sun’. Named after Eugene Parker, the developer of supersonic solar wind theory, this robotic spacecraft will reach the corona (the outermost and also the hottest atmosphericsp here of the sun) in seven years, going seven times closer to the sun’s surface than any other spacecraft has ever gone...
