# Parker Solar Probe XBudjihQKsw

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be the first-ever mission to \"touch\" the sun. The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, will travel directly into the sun's atmosphere about 4 million miles from our star's surface. Launch is slated for summer 2018.

Credit: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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- Kind: Short
- Year: 2017
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: NASA Goddard
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parker_Solar_Probe_XBudjihQKsw.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Goddard
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