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- NASA's Parker Solar Probe is set to pass the Sun on 24 December 2024.
- It's due to fly past the sun at 195 km/s, or 435,000 mph.
- "We are basically almost landing on a star," a scientist on the project said.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is set to pass the Sun next year in a milestone moment for space exploration.
The probe, launched on Aug 12, 2018, is due to fly past the sun at 195 km/s, or 435,000 mph on 24 December 2024, the BBC reported.
NASA describes it as a mission to ""touch the Sun" on its website, aiming to get our "first-ever sampling of a star's atmosphere."
"We are basically almost landing on a star," Nour Raouafi, a scientist on the project, told the BBC.