The Head of the University of Auckland's Physics Department Richard Easther talks about the Parker Solar Probe. What does NASA hope to learn by sending a spaceship the closest to the Sun that we've ever been? A mere 6 million kilometres away.
This handout illustration shows an artists conception of NASAs Parker Solar Probe, the spacecraft that will fly through the Suns corona to trace how energy and heat move through the stars atmosphere. Photo: AFP PHOTO / NASA / Johns Hopkins APL
