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Detailed explanation-1: -The Parker Solar Probe (PSP; previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+) is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 with the mission of making observations of the outer corona of the Sun.

Detailed explanation-2: -NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is on a mission to “touch the Sun.” The spacecraft is flying closer to the Sun’s surface than any spacecraft before it. The mission will revolutionize our understanding of the Sun. Parker will fly more than seven times closer to the Sun than any spacecraft.

Detailed explanation-3: -NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is the first-ever mission to “touch” the Sun. The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, travels directly through the Sun’s atmosphere–ultimately to a distance of bout 4 million miles from the surface. Parker Solar Probe launched aboard a Delta IV-Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, Aug.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Parker Solar Probe’s mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail. The revolutionary solar probe became the first spacecraft to “touch” the sun when it swooped inside the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, during its eighth flyby on April 28, 2021, according to a statement from NASA (opens in new tab).