NASA Launches Probe to Go Deep Into Sun’s Scorching Atmosphere

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Aug. 12, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Brown

NASA launched a space probe early Sunday that will go closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before, the agency announced.

The craft will endure extreme heat while zooming through the solar corona to study the Sun’s outer atmosphere that gives rise to the solar winds.