NASA’s New Parker Probe Will Skim the Sun’s Surface

Early on Easter Sunday, around 4 am local time, a C-17 transport plane carrying a cargo worth $1.5 billion will take off from Joint Base Andrews near Washington, DC, and head south to Cape Canaveral. On board, a carefully wrapped and padded spacecraft headed for a rendezvous with the sun. The Parker Solar Probe—designed and …

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