NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Lifts Off

Credit: Carleton Bailie/NASA
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched early Aug. 12 to begin a $1.6 billion, seven-year mission to help scientists better understand the genesis of the Sun’s intense heat, high-velocity solar wind, far-reaching radiation and magnetic influence. The spacecraft lifted off at 3:31 a.m. EDT from Cape...

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