31 May 2017
NASA to 'touch the Sun' with Parker Solar Probe
... Probe Plus (SPP) spacecraft – now renamed as the Parker Solar Probe in honor of astrophysicist Eugene Parker – to within four million miles of the Sun in the summer of 2018. Parker, who serves as the S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor...
10 August 2018
Fiery inferno awaits NASA's Parker Solar Probe
... life possible on our rocky planet. Named after Eugene Parker, the University of Chicago physicist who first predicted...it is therefore hoped that all of the data gathered by Parker will help researchers to revolutionise our understanding of the sun’s ...
