NASA launching probe that will ‘touch’ the sun

Published August 9, 2018 2:13pm ET



NASA will launch a probe Saturday that will “touch” the sun.

Launching on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the Parker Solar Probe “will be the first spacecraft to fly directly through the Sun’s corona – the part of the solar atmosphere visible during an eclipse – to answer questions about solar physics that have puzzled scientists for decades,” the space agency explained in a press release.

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