Parker Solar Probe

NASA robotic space probe to probe the outer corona of the Sun

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NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive entry^@
Freebase entry^@
Geophysical Research Letters A revised understanding of the structure of the Venusian magnetotail from a high‐altitude intercept with a Tail Ray by Parker Solar Probe^@

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rocket launch Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 37B

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A mission to touch the sun

Coronal streamer captured by PSP's WISPR

Depiction of the Sun's apparent size as seen from Earth (half a degree, on the right) agains the apparent size it would appear to someone looking at it from the Parker Solar Probe's closest distance to it (14 degrees at perihelion).

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PSP close-up views of solar streamers

Parker Solar Probe

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Parker Solar Probe It is shown with the thermal protection system – the heat shield – on top, which is one of the few times it is integrated with the space craft before it launches.

Parker Solar Probe inside one half of its 62.7-foot tall fairing

Parker Solar Probe was making its closest approach to the Sun on June 7, 2020, when its Wide-field Imager for Solar PRobe (WISPR) captured the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in its field of view.

The view from Parker Solar Probe's WISPR instrument on Sept. 25, 2018, shows Earth, the bright sphere near the middle of the right-hand panel. The elongated mark toward the bottom of the panel is a lens reflection from the WISPR instrument.

• Parker Solar Probe.webm (Wikimedia)
• Parker Solar Probe has now “touched the Sun”, passing through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona for the first time in April 2021. (Wikimedia)

Type	Description	Date	Source

link	NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive entry^@		Wikidata
link	Freebase entry^@		Wikidata
link	Geophysical Research Letters A revised understanding of the structure of the Venusian magnetotail from a high‐altitude intercept with a Tail Ray by Parker Solar Probe^@		Wikidata
major	rocket launch Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 37B	2018	Wikidata
minor	orbital activity	2018	Wikidata
image	A mission to touch the sun		Wikimedia
image	Coronal streamer captured by PSP's WISPR		Wikimedia
image	Depiction of the Sun's apparent size as seen from Earth (half a degree, on the right) agains the apparent size it would appear to someone looking at it from the Parker Solar Probe's closest distance to it (14 degrees at perihelion).	2014	Wikimedia
image	KSC-201807020-PH FWM01 0011 (42630180985)		Wikimedia
image	PSP close-up views of solar streamers		Wikimedia
image	Parker Solar Probe	2015	Wikimedia
image	Parker Solar Probe Families and Friends Day - 26248220107	2018	Wikimedia
image	Parker Solar Probe Families and Friends Day - 27246529608	2018	Wikimedia
image	Parker Solar Probe Families and Friends Day - 39310514870	2018	Wikimedia
image	Parker Solar Probe Families and Friends Day - 39310520920	2018	Wikimedia
image	Parker Solar Probe Families and Friends Day - 40224569135	2018	Wikimedia
image	Parker Solar Probe Families and Friends Day - 40224576905	2018	Wikimedia
image	Parker Solar Probe Families and Friends Day - 40224593845	2018	Wikimedia
image	Parker Solar Probe Families and Friends Day - 40224594725	2018	Wikimedia
image	Parker Solar Probe It is shown with the thermal protection system – the heat shield – on top, which is one of the few times it is integrated with the space craft before it launches.	2017	Wikimedia
image	Parker Solar Probe inside one half of its 62.7-foot tall fairing		Wikimedia
image	Parker Solar Probe was making its closest approach to the Sun on June 7, 2020, when its Wide-field Imager for Solar PRobe (WISPR) captured the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in its field of view.		Wikimedia
image	The view from Parker Solar Probe's WISPR instrument on Sept. 25, 2018, shows Earth, the bright sphere near the middle of the right-hand panel. The elongated mark toward the bottom of the panel is a lens reflection from the WISPR instrument.		Wikimedia
video	Parker Solar Probe.webm	2017	Wikimedia
video	Parker Solar Probe has now “touched the Sun”, passing through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona for the first time in April 2021.		Wikimedia

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