Parker Solar Probe Prelaunch

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Parker Solar Probe onboard is seen moments before launch, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)