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Parker Solar Probe

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Parker Solar Probe (previously NASA Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus, or Solar Probe+) is a planned NASA robotic spacecraft to probe the outer corona of the Sun . It will approach to within 8.5 solar radii (5.9 million kilometers or 3.67 million miles) to the 'surface' ( photosphere ) of the Sun. [2] The project was announced as a new mission start in the fiscal 2009 budget year. On May 1, 2008 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory announced it will design and build the spacecraft, on a schedule to launch it in 2015. [3] The launch date has since been pushed back to 2018, [4] with the Delta IV Heavy as the launch vehicle. [1] On May 31st, 2017 the probe was renamed after solar astrophysicist Eugene Parker [5] . According to NASA, this was the first time in history a space vessel was named after a living person. [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe   NASA PSP

Juno - A Whole New Jupiter

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/a-whole-new-jupiter-first-science-results-from-nasa-s-juno-mission Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet’s surface than previously thought. “We are excited to share these early discoveries, which help us better understand what makes Jupiter so fascinating,” said Diane Brown, Juno program executive at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "It was a long trip to get to Jupiter, but these first results already demonstrate it was well worth the journey.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o9FiTf1vZE