On August 12, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed a year in service.
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Parker Solar Probe is part of NASA’s “Living With a Star” programme that explores different aspects of the Sun-Earth system.
The probe seeks to gather information about the Sun’s atmosphere.
One of Parker's main objectives is to investigate what mechanism might be driving extreme heating in the sun's outermost layer, known as the corona.
Scientists are curious as why the corona is over a million degrees Fahrenheit (over 555,000 degrees Celsius), while the solar layers below are only a few thousand degrees Fahrenheit each.
It is the closest a human-made object has ever gone to the Sun.
The mission is likely to last for seven years during which it will complete 24 orbits.
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