Nasa announced its willingness to launch a spacecraft to reach the Sun on Saturday

NASA has just announced they are ready to launch their latest spacecraft. This ship is expected to fly closer to the sun than any artificial object has ever done before. For one Tweet, NASA said Parker Solar Probe was set up to take off on Saturday.

It will be launched from Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida in a Delta IV heavy rocket of the United Launch Alliance (ULA).

Dr. Nicky Fox, project scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, said: 'We have been studying the Sun for decades, and now we will eventually get there.' .

Probes - approximately the size of a car.

The energy of the Sun always flows through our world and although the solar wind is invisible, we can see it surrounds poles such as aurora, beautiful - emitting huge amounts of energy and overflow into our atmosphere.

According to Dr. Fox: 'We do not understand the mechanism that drives that wind towards us and that is what we are aiming to discover.'

The probe - roughly the size of a car - will face the scorching heat on its journey and is designed to withstand extreme conditions. It has new technology including a heat shield that allows the probe to operate at room temperature and will move at a speed of 430,000mph.

The task is named after physicist Eugene Parker, who published a 1958 scientific paper on the theory of the existence of solar winds. This is NASA's first mission named after a living person.

Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's Science Mission Director, said: 'By studying our star, we can not only learn more about the Sun. We can also learn more about all the other stars throughout the galaxy, the universe and even the beginning of life. '

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