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Detailed explanation-1: -Parker Solar Probe is part of NASA’s Living With a Star program to explore aspects of the Sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society. The Living With a Star flight program is managed by the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

Detailed explanation-2: -The rocketship, called the Parker Solar Probe, successfully entered and flew through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – on April 28, 2021, and sampled particles and magnetic fields situated on the surface of the sun.

Detailed explanation-3: -(2021, December 13). NASA enters the solar atmosphere for the first time (opens in new tab). NASA. Retrieved May 5, 2022.

Detailed explanation-4: -Parker also theorized an explanation for the superheated solar atmosphere, the corona, which is – contrary to what was expected by physics laws – hotter than the surface of the Sun itself. It was the first time NASA had named a mission for a living individual. Parker died in March 2022, at age 94.

Detailed explanation-5: -11 perihelion won’t be the closest for the Parker Solar Probe, which launched aboard a Delta IV-Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, in August 2018. During coming flybys, the spacecraft will advance on the sun, eventually passing as close as 3.8 million miles (6, 115500 km) from our star’s surface.