Mission midpoint: Parker Solar Probe makes 12th encounter with sun

Recommendable! We still know so little about the sun!

We do not even know much about solar cycles and their periodicity (other than the 11 year sun spot cycle) and how much they influence the climate on earth.  

"Nearly four years after launch, the Parker Solar Probe mission, managed for NASA by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, has made unprecedented and significant inroads toward achieving its goals of tracing the flow of energy that heats the sun's outer atmosphere, shedding light on the sources of the solar wind, and exploring how solar energetic particles are transported and accelerated—enough so that NASA already considers the mission, only halfway through, a success. ..."

Mission midpoint: Parker Solar Probe makes 12th encounter with sun | Hub As the spacecraft prepares its next flyby, take a look back at the record-setting mission already considered by NASA to be a smashing success