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Parker Solar Probe
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben
A spacecraft named after a physicist Eugene Newman Parker will be launched in mid August, 2018. The Parker Solar Probe will approach to the closest ever, 4 million miles from the surface of the sun, in the human history.
Dr. Parker
Dr. Parker is the first scientist who established a theory of “solar wind.” The first space craft after a living person was named by NASA “Parker Solar Probe.”
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman
1,137,000 persons applied for the public invitation of its naming. A memory card recording respective applicants’ names and a paper of the solar wind that Dr. Parker published in 1958 will be traveling together to the space.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman
A mission of the Parker Solar Probe, hopeful of enormous contribution to the humankind, is to elucidate in 7 years the various phenomena of the sun still mysterious a lot.