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NASA is turning 60 in 2018 and the agency is looking forward to launching a slew of important missions in the coming year, including one to “touch” the Sun.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is scheduled for launch in 2018 to explore the Sun’s outer atmosphere.
The probe will use Venus’ gravity during seven flybys over nearly seven years to gradually bring its orbit closer to the Sun, according to a NASA statement.
The spacecraft will fly through the Sun’s atmosphere as close as 6.2 million kilometres to the star’s surface, well within the orbit of Mercury and closer than any spacecraft has gone before.
The Parker Solar Probe will perform its scientific investigations in a hazardous region of intense heat and solar radiation.
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