Parker Solar Probe

NASA is going to launch Parker Solar Probe in 2018 to explore the sun’s outer atmosphere. The primary science goals for the mission are to trace how energy and heat move through the solar corona and to explore what accelerates the solar wind as well as solar energetic particles. The name of the probe initially called as the Solar Probe Plus. In May 2017, NASA renamed the spacecraft from the Solar Probe Plus to the Parker Solar Probe in honor of astrophysicist Eugene Parker.