We have given a model of solar system below. Explore it!
for best experience use this model on computer or laptop.
FUN FACTS ABOUT PARKER SOLAR PROBE
1.A total of 1,137,202 names were submitted and confirmed over the seven-and-a-half- week period, and a memory card containing the names was installed on the spacecraft on May 18, 2018.
2.The Parker Solar Probe is the fastest spacecraft ever built.
3.The Parker Solar Probe will have a mission life span of 7 or more years.
4.It is a first spacecraft to study a star.
5.The Parker Solar Probe is named in honor of the physicist Eugene Parker.
6.It's the First NASA Spacecraft to Be Named for a Living Person.
7.During close approach, the Sun will appear 25 times wider to Parker than it is from Earth.
SOME INTERESTING IMAGES OF PARKER SOLAR PROBE.
This is a great comparison of how big the sun is as compared to the parker solar probe. The parker solar probe is similar to that of the size of a car.
On it's way to the sun the Parker solar probe captured stunning images of Venus.When flying past Venus in July 2020, Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument, short for Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, detected a bright rim around the edge of the planet that may be nightglow — light emitted by oxygen atoms high in the atmosphere that recombine into molecules in the nightside
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, manages the Parker Solar Probe mission for NASA and designed, built, and operates the spacecraft.
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Team members involved in making of this website.
Leadership is important for teams and NASA has a group of people working together to make people be able to fly to space, work together in space, and much more. Similar to that, this project was built by a team: Ritik Raj, Jeff Cheong, and Azhar Ali. They built this so that more people can realize more about the sun and how important the Parker Solar Probe is.