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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/13/oshdoq73njkgdsl5fdqz-scaled.jpg?quality=7525601438The Parker Solar Probe blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday, setting itself on course to become both the fastest human craft ever launched (in the neighbourhood of 692,018km per hour) and the first to probe the outer corona of the sun.