Parker Solar Probe launches on historic journey to touch the sun
Sunday, August 12, 2018 - 06:32
in Astronomy & Space
Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will undertake a landmark mission. The spacecraft will transmit its first science observations in December, beginning a revolution in our understanding of the star that makes life on Earth possible.