A  United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker  Solar Probe on a mission to touch the Sun, on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018 from  Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The  Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the  Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Once there, it will directly explore  solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space  weather events that can impact life on Earth.

   Fig.  The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker  Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, from Launch  Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, 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

See: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-ula-launch-parker-solar-probe-on-historic-journey-to-touch-sun