Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is officially on its way to the sun.
After a one-day delay, the probe took off into a dark, cloudy sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla.
, aboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket at 3:31 a.m. EDT on August 12.“Here we go,” said 91-year-old solar physicist Eugene Parker, the spacecraft’s namesake, . Parker proposed the existence of the solar wind, a stream of charged particles flowing away from the sun, in 1958. The…
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