A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launched NASA’s Parker Solar Probe from Space Launch Complex-37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on 12 August 2018, at 07:31 UTC (03:31 EDT). The Parker Solar Probe will study the Sun to help us better understand the corona, the solar wind and other solar activity that might impact life on Earth. The mission was named for Eugene Parker, the S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago.
Credit: NASA
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