The Parker Solar Probe has launched and is on its way to explore the sun
By November, the car-sized spacecraft should be surfing the sun’s atmosphere and collecting data

REACH FOR THE SKY The Parker Solar Probe took off from Cape Canaveral in the wee hours of August 12.
Bill Ingalls/NASA
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